ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
The equation of time and the sidereal time of mean noon complete the ephemeris proper.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
All the matter is given by months, as in the solar and lunar ephemeris of our own and the British Almanac.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
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
In one direction, however, our ephemeris will hereafter be far ahead of all others.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
It, perhaps, may be important to remark that we could not introduce this change immediately, since the ephemerides are already computed and published for three or four years in advance.
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 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
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
The leading nations publish ephemerides of this sort.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
