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Administrator's note[edit]

There was an earlier article by this name which I deleted per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Galactic Tick Day. This version is quite different from that article in its content, and is much better referenced. Thus, it is not eligible for speedy deletion per WP:G4. --MelanieN (talk) 00:57, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Interval[edit]

The article currently says "The day occurs on a regular interval of 1.7361 years (or 633.7 days),[5] which is called a Galactic tick." Now, these two figures appear on the galactictick.com website and in various news reports, but they can't both be correct, because 1.7361 years is not equal to 633.7 days. It looks as if the second was calculated from the first by someone making the assumption that a year is exactly 365 days. In any case, the two Galactic Tick Days which have been observed were on September 29, 2016 and June 26th, 2018, which are 635 days apart. Butsuri (talk) 19:06, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it's meant to be calculated based on Sidereal Time? I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around the math, but since it's measuring movement relative to the Milky Way Galaxy, that might be more appropriate than the solar days and years that we use in everyday life. Except that, y'know, normally if one was presenting information to laypersons using specialized unit definitions, one would take care to point that out. 47.40.87.138 (talk) 04:32, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization of “galactic center”[edit]

“Galactic” is capitalized throughout the article, except for “galactic center”. I was about to capitalize it, because it’s capitalized in Galactic Center, but the link is [[Galactic Center|galactic center]], so there must be some reason.

On the topic of somewhat light-hearted astronomical things, it’s not clear whether “galactic central point” is capitalized in Monty Python’s Galaxy Song (which should be capitalized), but it says a galactic year is only 200 million Earth years. Stephen Hawking didn’t correct them when he performed the song, although, apparently, Eric Idle did correct, perhaps accidentally, Earth’s distance from the galactic center. Roches (talk) 09:00, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]