• The term ephemeris time (often abbreviated ET) can in principle refer to time in association with any ephemeris (itinerary of the trajectory of an astronomical...
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  • navigation, an ephemeris (/ɪˈfɛmərɪs/; pl. ephemerides /ˌɛfəˈmɛrɪˌdiːz/; from Latin ephemeris 'diary', from Ancient Greek ἐφημερίς (ephēmerís) 'diary, journal')...
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    transition, newly established, with the ephemeris second. The ephemeris second is a unit in the system of time that, when used as the independent variable...
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  • century. Time standards based on Earth rotation were replaced (or initially supplemented) for astronomical use from 1952 onwards by an ephemeris time standard...
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    time standards such as sidereal time and ephemeris time, for most practical purposes, by newer time standards based wholly or partly on atomic time using...
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    Second (redirect from Second (time))
    Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris and the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, p. 9, ... defined ephemeris time ... [was] adopted by the International...
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  • (non-relativistic) former standard of ephemeris time (adopted by the IAU in 1952 and superseded 1976). In 2006, after a history of multiple time-scale definitions and...
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  • In this role, TT continues Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT or TD), which succeeded ephemeris time (ET). TT shares the original purpose for which ET was...
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    ephemeris second (see Ephemeris time - redefinition of the second). In 1976, however, the IAU resolved that the theoretical basis for ephemeris time was...
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    basis for ephemeris time (ET) was wholly non-relativistic, and therefore, beginning in 1984 ephemeris time would be replaced by two further time scales with...
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    Indian national calendar (category Time in India)
    Ephemeris Time in all national ephemeredes, in order to have uniformity with other nations in indicating the position of the planets in the ephemeris...
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    of mean solar time (UT2) (result: 9192631830 cycles) and also the second of ephemeris time (ET) (result:9192631770 ± 20 cycles), see "Time Scales", by L...
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    of the astronomical time scale ephemeris time (ET). In 1967 the International System of Units (SI) standardized its unit of time, the second, on the properties...
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  • second offset is to provide continuity with the older ephemeris time. "History of TAI−UTC". Time Service Dept., United States Naval Observatory. 2009....
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  • third release of the JPL Ephemeris Tapes, and was a special purpose, short-duration ephemeris. The then-current JPL Export Ephemeris was DE19. These early...
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  • Propulsion Laboratory as Development Ephemeris. The latest releases include DE430 which covers planetary and lunar ephemeris from Dec 21, 1549 to Jan 25, 2650...
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  • Raphael's Ephemeris is an ephemeris, or set of tables, used in astrology to determine the position of the Sun, Moon and planets. Raphael was a pseudonym...
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  • rate, astronomers introduced Ephemeris Time, which has since been replaced by Terrestrial Time (TT). Because Universal Time is determined by the Earth's...
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    1986, 281-292 Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris and the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, Nautical Almanac Offices of UK and...
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    Equation of Ephemeris Time: 1532  (prior to the distinction that is now made between EOT, E, and Δt the latter was known as the equation of time) is Δ t =...
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  • the Gregorian calendar are used. For continuity with its predecessor Ephemeris Time, TCG was set to match ET at around Julian Date 2443144.5 (1977-01-01T00Z)...
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    known in Halley's time that what is actually occurring includes a slowing-down of Earth's rate of rotation: see also Ephemeris time – History. When measured...
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    Year (redirect from Time ago)
    36525 ephemeris days and the Julian millennium of 365250 ephemeris days are used in astronomical calculations. Fundamentally, expressing a time interval...
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    Lunar month (category Units of time)
    Chicago Press. Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris and the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office...
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    sandglass, sand timer, or sand clock) is a device used to measure the passage of time. It comprises two glass bulbs connected vertically by a narrow neck that...
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    standard atomic clock was carried out by the use of the astronomical time scale ephemeris time (ET). As of 2013, the most stable atomic clocks are ytterbium...
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    confused with ephemeris seconds.) Each day, the sidereal time at any given place and time will be about four minutes shorter than local civil time (which is...
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  • Tropical year (category Units of time)
    year begins". The mean tropical year in 2000 was 365.24219 ephemeris days, each ephemeris day lasting 86,400 SI seconds. This is 365.24217 mean solar...
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    the existing standard ephemeris second based on the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Because no other measurement involving time had been as precise, the...
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  • the Gregorian calendar are used. For continuity with its predecessor Ephemeris Time, TCB was set to match ET at around Julian Date 2443144.5 (1977-01-01T00Z)...
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