ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
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
Since it is noon at some point of the earth all the time, it follows that such an ephemeris will always be referred to noon at some meridian.
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
The third class of data in the ephemeris comprises phenomena to be predicted and observed.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
These ephemerides of politics are not made for our slow and coarse understandings.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
France," he says, "created more than two centuries ago the most ancient nautical ephemerides in existence.
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
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
The leading nations publish ephemerides of this sort.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
