As for the Little Dipper, it is circumpolar â always above the horizon â as far south as the tropic of Cancer (23.5 degrees north latitude). Stars in the Big Dipper via EarthSky Facebook friend Ken Christison. He captured this photo on September 9, 2013.
dwell time (usually uncountable, plural dwell times) (chiefly engineering) The period of time that a system or element of a system remains in a given state. The drone has a dwell time of about six hours when operating from an in-theater airfield. The part needs a total dwell time in the autoclave of 95 minutes. (military) The duty time soldiers have at their domestic home base between foreign deployments.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For access time in hard disk drives, see Disk access time. For access time in Unix file statistics, see stat (Unix). Access time is the time delay or latency between a request to an electronic system, and the access being completed or the requested data returned. In a telecommunications system, access time is the delay between the start of an access attempt and successful access. Access time values are measured only on access attempts that result in successful access.