ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
When our ephemeris was first commenced, the corrections applied to existing tables rendered it more accurate than any other.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
I take, for example, the ephemeris for the year 1901, and I look under the heading "Jupiter" on page 239, for the month of July.
From Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries by Garrett Putman Serviss
The first appropriation for an American ephemeris and nautical almanac was made by Congress in 1849.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
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 Simon Newcomb
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 Edmund Burke
His tables of the moon are those now used for predicting the places of the moon in all the ephemerides of the world.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
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
At first they were not regular, annual publications, issued by governments, as at the present time, but the works of individual astronomers who issued their ephemerides for several years in advance, at irregular intervals.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
Two systems of eclipse elements are now adopted in the ephemerides and tables; the one, that of F.W.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
