ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
One of the purposes of any ephemeris, and especially of that of the navigators, is to give the position of the heavenly bodies at equidistant intervals of time, usually one day.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
The astronomical part of our ephemeris, therefore, gives the positions of the principal fixed stars, the sun, moon, and all the larger planets at the moment of transit over our own meridian.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
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 Newcomb, Simon
As a consequence of the several difficulties and drawbacks, when the computation of our ephemeris was started, in the year 1849, there were no tables which could be regarded as really satisfactory in use.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
The preceding are the principal astronomical and nautical ephemerides of the world, but there are a number of minor publications, of the same class, of which I cannot pretend to give a complete list.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
Since that time, the introduction into foreign ephemerides of the improved tables of Le Verrier have rendered them, on the whole, rather more accurate than our own.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
Bessel, is used in the English, American and French ephemerides, the other—P. A. Hansen’s—in the German and in the eclipse tables of T. Ritter von Oppolzer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
In consequence I had no legal right to go on with the former, although the ephemerides of Europe were waiting for the results.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Newcomb, Simon
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
