ephemerides in English
noun
1
a table or data file giving the calculated positions of a celestial object at regular intervals throughout a period.
Timing an occultation to a fraction of a second allows the observed location to be referenced against the predicted position from the computed ephemeris , perhaps leading to an update.
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1. By the 4th century, however, their mathematical methods had progressed enough to calculate future planetary positions with reasonable accuracy, at which point extensive ephemerides began to appear.
2. Binaries This project is intended to simplify the calculus of parameters and ephemerides from binary systems, like the epoch at which a particular orbital phase takes place or the determination of the orbit in the plane of the sky given the orbital parameters of a system.