The requirements of specialized machines drove a proliferation of timescales customized to each user: Universal time, sidereal time,
ephemeris time, barycentric time, and terrestrial time are just a few examples.
Not exact matches
The study began by improving Mercury's charted
ephemeris — the road map of the planet's position in our sky over
time.
We report a significant sinusoidal deviation of the transit
times from a predicted linear
ephemeris, which we conclude is due to an additional perturbing body in the system.