ephemeris

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This is the offset to apply to Chariklo’s ephemeris to fit the observations.

From Nature • Apr. 4, 2014

As it is the oldest, so, in respect at least to number of pages, it is the largest ephemeris of the present time.

From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon

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 Newcomb, Simon

When our ephemeris was first commenced, the corrections applied to existing tables rendered it more accurate than any other.

From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon

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