Astronomical Almanac

The Astronomical Almanac[1] is an almanac published by the United States Naval Observatory and Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office, containing solar system ephemeris and catalogs of selected stellar and extragalactic objects.

The Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac provides detailed discussion of usage and data reduction methods used by the Almanac.[2]

Contents

Publication history

" The Astronomical Almanac is the direct descendant of the British and American navigational almanacs. The British Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris had been published since 1766, and was renamed The Astronomical Ephemeris in 1960. The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac had been published since 1852. In 1981 the British and American publications were combined under the title The Astronomical Almanac."[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2007, (United States Naval Observatory/Nautical Almanac Office, 2006).
  2. ^ a b P. K. Seidelmann (editor), Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac (University Science Books, New York, 1992).
  3. ^ "History of the Astronomical Almanac." United States Naval Observatory.
  4. ^ Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris and the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, (1961) ('ESAE 1961'), a joint publication of the Nautical Almanac Offices of the UK and US; esp. sect.1B.

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