The phrase "astronomical calculations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to mathematical computations related to astronomy, such as determining the positions of celestial bodies or calculating distances in space.
Example: "The researchers conducted astronomical calculations to predict the trajectory of the comet."
Alternatives: "celestial computations" or "space-related calculations".
The New Yorker, April 1 , 1939P. 17 Astronomical calculations by Mr. Thurber.
By James Thurber The New Yorker, April 1 , 1939P. 17 Astronomical calculations by Mr. Thurber.
Written on bark paper, these codices deal with astronomical calculations, divination, and ritual.
Stuart describes the codices as "handbooks for priests", focusing on astronomical calculations that were quite elaborate and accurate.
But, by the impenetrable astronomical calculations that govern this moveable feast, the Orthodox Easter falls on Sunday, April 15.
Rosalía Pacab, 78, bending over her embroidery, does not take her ancestors' astronomical calculations as the authority on the eventual end of days.
His system, which greatly eased astronomical calculation, had been published in 1543, to little ideological agitation.
Astronomical calculation and dating by radioactive-carbon content are also helpful in the work of fixing ancient chronologies.
Nevertheless, as the year in which an eclipse occurred is never mentioned on the preserved oracle bones (many of which are mere fragments), dating of these observations by astronomical calculation has proved extremely difficult.
On average, they occur so infrequently at any particular location that if the date of such an event can be established by historical means to within a decade or two, it may well prove possible to fix an exact date by astronomical calculation.
1. Swerdlow and Neugebauer (4) used the bindings to establish Copernicus's acquisition of the 1492 Venice edition of the Alfonsine Tables and the 1490 Augsburg edition of Regiomontanus's Tabulae directionum, two very important books for astronomical calculation, to this period.
