ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
And now not only is it slightly off course, but so is every ephemeris printed on Mert.
From Conquest Over Time by Shaara, Michael
I take, for example, the ephemeris for the year 1901, and I look under the heading "Jupiter" on page 239, for the month of July.
From Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries by Serviss, Garrett Putman
An old ephemeris, and one well known in astronomy is that published by the Observatory of Milan, Italy, which has lately entered upon the second century of its existence.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
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 Bligh, William
Two systems of eclipse elements are now adopted in the ephemerides and tables; the one, that of F.W.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
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 Newcomb, Simon
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
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 Newcomb, Simon
The flying ephemerides enveloped us like a vaporous eddy.
From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.
