ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
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 Simon Newcomb
As it is the oldest, so, in respect at least to number of pages, it is the largest ephemeris of the present time.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
For instance, under the entry newspaper occurs the attractive word ephemeris.
From Public Speaking by Clarence Stratton
One of the purposes of any ephemeris, and especially of that of the navigators, is to give the position of the heavenly bodies at equidistant intervals of time, usually one day.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science 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
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
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
Lord Crawford has printed a catalogue of his Proclamations, and in the writer's Collections, 1867-92, occur thousands of these ephemerides arranged under what appeared to be their appropriate heads.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt
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