ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
Commencing with the ephemeris for the year 1883, Hansen's tables are introduced with corrections to the mean longitude founded on two centuries of observation.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
To recognize it, it is necessary to have an astronomical ephemeris showing its right ascension and declination, and star maps showing where the parallels of right ascension and declination lie among the stars.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
This is a stellar ephemeris, just as packed with facts as an egg is with meat.
From The Ethical Engineer by Harry Harrison
And now not only is it slightly off course, but so is every ephemeris printed on Mert.
From Conquest Over Time by Michael Shaara
To the end of a long life, she played an almost sovereign part, so that in the ephemerides of Hawaii, the progresses of Kaahumanu are chronicled along with the deaths and the accessions of kings.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
I volunteered to test this question by looking at the ephemerides of all the small planets in the neighborhood of Mars.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
The vital ideas of the present danced by in thin-winged progress unperceived, or rather perceived as bloodless and irresolute ephemerides.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
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
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