ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
In one direction, however, our ephemeris will hereafter be far ahead of all others.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
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
In explaining it, I will take the ephemeris as it now is, with the small changes which have been made from time to time.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
The astronomical part of our ephemeris, therefore, gives the positions of the principal fixed stars, the sun, moon, and all the larger planets at the moment of transit over our own meridian.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
I volunteered to test this question by looking at the ephemerides of all the small planets in the neighborhood of Mars.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
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
Bessel, is used in the English, American and French ephemerides, the other—P. A. Hansen’s—in the German and in the eclipse tables of T. Ritter von Oppolzer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
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
At first they were not regular, annual publications, issued by governments, as at the present time, but the works of individual astronomers who issued their ephemerides for several years in advance, at irregular intervals.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
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