ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
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
He checked the time with the satellite ephemeris.
From Pushbutton War by John Schoenherr
Another part of the ephemeris gives the position of the heavenly bodies, not at equidistant intervals, but at transit over some meridian.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
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
Such tables are used in the offices of the national Ephemerides to construct ephemerides of the several planets, showing their exact positions in the sky from day to day.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
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
Since that time, the introduction into foreign ephemerides of the improved tables of Le Verrier have rendered them, on the whole, rather more accurate than our own.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
The leading nations publish ephemerides of this sort.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
The preceding are the principal astronomical and nautical ephemerides of the world, but there are a number of minor publications, of the same class, of which I cannot pretend to give a complete list.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
