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The period of this Report includes 1984 January 1, the date which was probably the most drastic caesura in the history of astronomical almanacs. It seemed, therefore, appropriate to concentrate here to the general aspects rather than to describe the works going on at the particular almanac offices.
A M Sinzi +10 more
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Commission No. 4: Ephemerides (Ephemerides) [PDF]
It was the President’s sad duty to report the deaths of two former past Presidents of the Commission, W. Fricke who had also been a Vice-President of the IAU and a President of Commission 8, and D. H. Sadler who had been Superintendent of H.M. Nautical Almanac Office from 1936 to 1969 and was once General Secretary of the IAU.
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The appended reports of the directors of the national ephemeris offices provide a record of the current activity in the publication and preparation of astronomical ephemerides, including those published for use by navigators and surveyors and those prepared for astronomers whose special needs are not met in the printed almanacs.
G. A. Wilkins +5 more
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Izračun položaja GPS-satelita iz podatkov oddanih efemerid : GPS-Orbit Computation from Broadcast Ephemeris Data [PDF]
The article describes the theoretical point of view of the GPS-broadcast ephemerides application. Beside the raw GPS observations, any kind of GPS ephemerides represents indispensable data in the GPS processing engine.
Bojan Stopar +1 more
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Positioning accuracy is affected by the combined effect of user range errors and the geometric distribution of satellites. Dilution of precision (DOP) is defined as the geometric strength of visible satellites.
Haomeng Cui, Shoujian Zhang
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BDS-3 was formally put into service on July 31, 2020, and now along with BDS-2 provides the positioning, navigation and timing services. In this contribution, different techniques of dual-frequency absolute positioning using the fully serviceable BDS-2 ...
Shengnan Liu, Shaolin Zhu, Jian Zhang
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We cast a retrospective look at the mankind’s acquaintance with minor bodies of the Solar System, at the explosive growth in their discoveries resulting from the technological progress, and at gradual understanding of the danger to our very existence ...
Rykhlova L., Bakanas E.
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Orbital Period Refinement of CoRoT Planets with TESS Observations
CoRoT was the first space mission dedicated to exoplanet detection. Operational between 2007 and 2012, this mission discovered 37 transiting planets, including CoRoT-7b, the first terrestrial exoplanet with a measured size. The precision of the published
Peter Klagyivik +8 more
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Maya records of planetary conjunctions in Dresden Codex [PDF]
Old Mayas designed a very complicated calendar, and they also recorded important historical events and astronomical phenomena. Dresden Codex (DC), one of the four preserved Mayan hieroglyphic literal legacies, contains many of these, covering ...
Vondrák J., Böhm V., Böhm B.
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ABSTRACT As non‐terrestrial networks (NTNs) become integral to future 6G systems, ensuring seamless connectivity and service continuity over low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations is essential. This work investigates the impact of open radio access network (RAN) functional splits on handover performance in NTNs, focusing on minimizing service ...
Siva Satya Sri Ganesh Seeram +3 more
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