ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
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 Simon Newcomb
Like other publications of this sort this ephemeris has gradually increased in volume.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
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
Those who, after all, may not care to consult the ephemeris in order to find the planets, may be able to locate them, simply from a knowledge of their situation among the constellations.
From Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries by Garrett Putman Serviss
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
I volunteered to test this question by looking at the ephemerides of all the small planets in the neighborhood of Mars.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
The flying ephemerides enveloped us like a vaporous eddy.
From The Queen Pedauque by Jos. A. V. Stritzko
France," he says, "created more than two centuries ago the most ancient nautical ephemerides in existence.
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
