ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
Armed with these novel powers, he set to work; and the communication in November of his elements and ephemeris for the lost object revived the drooping hopes of the little band of eager searchers.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
His Merlini Anglici ephemeris, issued annually from 1642 to 1681, brought him a great deal of money.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
He will find that these same data, after being partially adopted in the ephemeris for 1900, were thrown out in 1901, and the antiquated ones reintroduced in the main body of the ephemeris.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
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
It may be interesting to say something of the tables and theories from which the astronomical ephemerides are computed.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
To the end of a long life, she played an almost sovereign part, so that in the ephemerides of Hawaii, the progresses of Kaahumanu are chronicled along with the deaths and the accessions of kings.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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 Simon Newcomb
The rule adopted, therefore, is to have all the ephemerides which refer to absolute time, without any reference to a meridian, given for Greenwich noon, unless there may be some special reason to the contrary.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
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