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
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
Since it is noon at some point of the earth all the time, it follows that such an ephemeris will always be referred to noon at some meridian.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
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 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
We should all turn into flaming ephemerides, fluttering about the crater of a perpetually active volcano.
From The Witch of Prague by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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 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
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 Simon Newcomb
