ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
Gauss published an approximate ephemeris of probable positions when the planet should emerge from the sun’s light.
From History of Astronomy by George Forbes
He also got a quadrant and compass into the boat; but was forbidden, on pain of death, to touch either map, ephemeris, book of astronomical observations, sextant, time-keeper, or any of my surveys or drawings.
From A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat by William Bligh
The third class of data in the ephemeris comprises phenomena to be predicted and observed.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
The astronomical ephemeris is the last outcome of their productive genius.”
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
At the present day the nautical ephemerides contain, several years in advance, the indications of the times of the eclipses and reappearances of Jupiter's satellites.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
These ephemerides of politics are not made for our slow and coarse understandings.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Subsequent ephemerides were prepared with more practical objects.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
He will find the foreign ephemerides using uniform data worked out in the office of the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac" at Washington for the years beginning with 1901.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
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 Simon Newcomb
