ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
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 Yule, Henry
To recognize it, it is necessary to have an astronomical ephemeris showing its right ascension and declination, and star maps showing where the parallels of right ascension and declination lie among the stars.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
And now not only is it slightly off course, but so is every ephemeris printed on Mert.
From Conquest Over Time by Shaara, Michael
From the resulting elements of the orbit the positions of the body from day to day may be computed and tabulated in an ephemeris for the use of observers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
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.
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
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 Newcomb, Simon
The leading nations publish ephemerides of this sort.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Newcomb, Simon
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 Burke, Edmund
