ephemeris
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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
The astronomical ephemeris is the last outcome of their productive genius.”
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
He will find that these same data, after being partially adopted in the ephemeris for 1900, were thrown out in 1901, and the antiquated ones reintroduced in the main body of the ephemeris.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
Chronometry -- N. chronometry, horometry†, horology; date, epoch; style, era. almanac, calendar, ephemeris; register, registry; chronicle, annals, journal, diary.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
As a consequence of the several difficulties and drawbacks, when the computation of our ephemeris was started, in the year 1849, there were no tables which could be regarded as really satisfactory in use.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science 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
The computation of their perturbations and ephemerides by Euler’s and Lagrange’s method of variable elements became so laborious that Encke devised a special process for these, which can be applied to many other disturbed orbits.
From History of Astronomy by George Forbes
The requisite changes in the astronomical and nautical ephemerides would be easily made.
Those in Pepys's library at Cambridge are of much later date, yet of some no duplicates can be quoted, so vast has been the destruction of these ephemerides.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt
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
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