ephemeris

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

From Nature • Apr. 4, 2014

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

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 Newcomb, Simon

For instance, under the entry newspaper occurs the attractive word ephemeris.

From Public Speaking by Stratton, Clarence

The equation of time and the sidereal time of mean noon complete the ephemeris proper.

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