ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
They sell in Persia an annual almanac called Tacuim, which is properly an ephemeris containing the longitude and latitude of the planets, their conjunctions and oppositions, and other such matter.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
He checked the time with the satellite ephemeris.
From Pushbutton War by John Schoenherr
For instance, under the entry newspaper occurs the attractive word ephemeris.
From Public Speaking by Clarence Stratton
From the resulting elements of the orbit the positions of the body from day to day may be computed and tabulated in an ephemeris for the use of observers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
Of the regular annual ephemerides the earliest, so far as I am aware, is the Connaissance des Temps or French Nautical Almanac.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
The pictorial journalism of the "Comic Almanacks" is often delicious; no ephemerides, in my knowledge, equal them in sustained humorous effect.
From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson
We should all turn into flaming ephemerides, fluttering about the crater of a perpetually active volcano.
From The Witch of Prague by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Subsequent ephemerides were prepared with more practical objects.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
Lord Crawford has printed a catalogue of his Proclamations, and in the writer's Collections, 1867-92, occur thousands of these ephemerides arranged under what appeared to be their appropriate heads.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt