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
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
To do this successfully, and without waste of time, it is necessary to have an astronomical ephemeris for the year.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
Of the regular annual ephemerides the earliest, so far as I am aware, is the Connaissance des Temps or French Nautical Almanac.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
Subsequent ephemerides were prepared with more practical objects.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
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
It was Behaim who introduced to the Portuguese the improved ephemerides calculated by the German Regiomontanus, and printed at Nuremberg in 1474.
From American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Edward Potts Cheyney
In the present day, the nautical ephemerides contain, several years in advance, the indication of the times of the eclipses and reappearances of Jupiter's satellites.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
