ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
In explaining it, I will take the ephemeris as it now is, with the small changes which have been made from time to time.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
Since it is noon at some point of the earth all the time, it follows that such an ephemeris will always be referred to noon at some meridian.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
Gauss published an approximate ephemeris of probable positions when the planet should emerge from the sun’s light.
From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George
The equation of time and the sidereal time of mean noon complete the ephemeris proper.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
The requisite changes in the astronomical and nautical ephemerides would be easily made.
The computation of their perturbations and ephemerides by Euler’s and Lagrange’s method of variable elements became so laborious that Encke devised a special process for these, which can be applied to many other disturbed orbits.
From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George
Slightly as they have considered their subject, I think this can hardly have escaped the writers of political ephemerides for any month or year.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
The leading nations publish ephemerides of this sort.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Newcomb, Simon
To avoid any chance of mistake, it should be prominently stated on each page of the ephemerides that mean time reckoned from mean midnight is kept throughout.
