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 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 Newcomb, Simon

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

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

Those used for lunar computations in the nautical ephemeris.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir