1. Introduction to Positional Astronomy
2. Relativity for Astrometry, Celestial Mechanics and Metrology
3. Time
4. The Fundamental Celestial Reference System
5. Terrestrial Coordinates and the Rotation of the Earth
6. Precession, Nutation, and Earth Rotation
7. Positions
8. Orbital Ephemerides of the Sun, Moon, and Planets
9. Planetary Satellites and Rings
10. Physical Ephemerides
11. Eclipses of the Sun and Moon
12. Astronomical Phenomena
13. Stars and Stellar Systems
14. Computational Techniques
15. Calendars
SEAN E. URBAN is Chief of the Nautical Almanac Office of the US
Naval Observatory and a member of the American Astronomical
Society, the Division of Dynamical Astronomy, and the International
Astronomical Union's Division I (Fundamental Astronomy), Commission
4 (Ephemerides), and Commission 8 (Astrometry). In 1985, he was
hired as a staff astronomer in the Astrometry Department of the US
Naval Observatory, where he eventually rose to Chief of the
Cataloging and Requirements Division. He has authored or
co-authored over 70 articles, most on positional astronomy.
P. KENNETH SEIDELMANN is a Research Professor at the University of
Virginia, USA and previously held the post of director of Astronomy
at the US Naval Observatory. His recent work has focused on space
astrometry missions, Origins Billion Star Survey (OBSS),
Astrometric Mapping Explorer (AMEX), and the Full-sky Astrometric
Mapping Explorer (FAME). He is Chair of the IAU/IAG Working Group
on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements and the
Celestial Mechanics Institute.
'Careful measurements have always been the key to mastery of planetary and stellar dynamics and the cosmic distance scale. The material detailed in this book is the very bedrock underlying much else that we know about our own solar system and beyond.' - Roger W. Sinnott, Senior Contributing Editor, Sky & Telescope
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