CONTENTS Reduction from Universal Time to Ephemeris Time Corrections PHENOMENA: Visibility of Planets; Eclipses Geocentric and Heliocentric Phenimena Occultations and Magnitudes of Planets; Diary of Configurations Precessional Constants Calendar; Chronological Cycles and Eras Religious Calendars UNIVERSAL AND SIDEREAL TIMES Sun Ephemeris for. Precession and Nutation in Longitude; Obliquity Rectangular Coordinates for Equinoxes 1976.O, 1977.0 AND 1950.0 MOON Ephemeris for and Ephemeris Time Right Ascension, declination and Horizontal Parallax for each hour Geocentric distance for 0h and 12h Ephemeris Time HELIOCENTRIC EPHEMERIDES OF MAJOR PLANETS: Mercury Venus 206 Mars 210 Jupiter 212 Saturn 213 URANUS, Neptune and Pluto ELEMENTS OF MOON, SUN AND MAJOR PLANETS GEOCENTRIC EPHEMERIDES OFMAJOR PLANET Mercury Marz Saturn Neptune Ceres Juno Venus Jupiter Uranus Pluto Pallas Vesta DAY NUMBERS Bsesselian and Independent Day Numbers for 0 Ephemeris Time Besselian Day Numbers for Sideral Time Second-order Day Numbers MEAN PLACES OF 1078 STARS ECLIPSES OF THE SUN AND MOON EPHEMERIDES FOR PHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS Sun Mars Moon Jupiter Illuminated disks of Mercury and Venus Saturn Satellites Mars Saturn (Rings) Uranus Jupiter Saturn Neptune RISINGS, SETTINGS AND MISCELLANEOUS TABLES Sunrise and Sunset; Twilight Moonrise and Moonset Observatories Table I Julian Day Number II Pole Star Table, 1976 III Reduction of mean places of stars to 1976 IV Approximate reduction to true equinox from 1950 V Differential Aberration VI Differential Precession and Nutation, 1976 VII Factors for computing geocentric coordinates VIII, IX Conversion of hours, minutes and seconds to decimals of a day X Conversion of hours, minutes and seconds to decimals of a day XI, XII Conversion of Time to Arc, and Arc to Time XIII-XVII Interpolation Tables EXPLANATION INDEX |