skytime

Noun

skytime (uncountable)

1. The time when a vehicle such as an airplane is in flight.
   • Skytime to Lebanon or Israel is twelve minutes, add four more for Jordan.1957, The Georgia Review - Volume 11, page 68
   • Be aware: skytime has been granted so all drakes are coming out to play. Go ahead and test the upgrade a little more but don't push yourselves.2016, James Barclay, Heart of Granite
2. Time that an astronomer has booked for use of a major telescope.
   • But it's possible for an astronomer in say, England, or Hawaii, to book skytime here and scrutinize the results from his own laboratory via computer.1995, Liz Rigbey, Total Eclipse, page 39
3. Time as measured by looking at the sky.
   • Close to midnight part of the horizon was suffused with a pearly glow, and presently, on skytime, the great moon peered above the water, then seemed to bound free, eager to pace along its arching trail, throwing a path of molten silver on an ebon sea.1914, Adventure - Volume 9, Issues 4-6, page 14
   • At sunset, which was in a grey bank with moist gold dabs and racks, the whole round of skytime had level clouds naturally lead-colour but the upper parts ruddled, some more, some less rosy.1972, Jerome Francis Anthony Bump, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poet of Nature - Volume 1, page 210