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Present Status of the Astronomical Ephemeris

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Sh. Aoki  and
A. M. Sinzi
Sh. Aoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Astronomical Observatory Mitaka, Tokyo, 181 Japan
A. M. Sinzi
Affiliation:
Hydro graphic Department of Japan Tsukiji-5, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104 Japan

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The IAU (1976) System of Astronomical Constants and a new set of fundamental theories will expectedly be introduced into the international and national ephemerides for the volumes of 1984 onwards. In order to avoid any confusion in the future, it is necessary to manifest the character of the data published in the current volumes of the Astronomical Ephemeris = American Ephemeris, both abbreviated as A.E. With this end in view, computer programs for the calculations of the ephemerides of the Sun and inner planets based on the Newcomb's (1895, 1898) Tables have been prepared at Tokyo Astronomical Observatory (TAO) and Hydrographic Department of Japan (JHD) independently of each other using different computers and hence different types of FORTRAN. JHD has further prepared the programs for the Moon's ephemerides based on the Brown-Eckert theory and has reproduced the Eckert, Brouwer and Clemence's numerical integrations of the outer planets. Fundamental ephemerides thus calculated are compared with those data tabulated in the A.E. for the year of 1975, as an example, in the present paper.

Type
Part III: Ephemerides, Equinox and Occultations
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 81: Dynamics of the Solar System , 1979 , pp. 115 - 120
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1979 

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