Sentence examples for lunar error from inspiring English sources

One of Shen's greatest achievements, aided by Wei Pu, was correcting the lunar error by diligently recording and plotting the moon's orbital path three times a night over a period of five years.

The court fully accepted their corrections to lunar and solar error, but only partially adopted Shen and Wei's corrected plotting of the planetary orbital paths and various speeds.

When Wei and Shen made a public demonstration using the gnomon to prove the doubtful wrong, the other ministers reluctantly agreed to correct the lunar and solar errors.

Horrocks' model predicted the lunar position with errors no more than 10 arc-minutes; for comparison, the diameter of the Moon is roughly 30 arc-minutes.

They use a calendar based on phases of the Moon, and sometime about March the precise date depends on the degree of error of their lunar calendar compared with the tropical year they go out in boats with lighted flares.

It is shown that the global mean error of the lunar gravity field can be reduced to less than 0.1 mGal at a spatial resolution of 50 km.

The optical responses of hollow-type retroreflectors are investigated through numerical simulations, especially focusing on large-size, single-reflector targets that can ultimately minimize the systematic error in future lunar laser ranging.

In a recent validation study, the short term in vivo precision error for the Lunar Prodigy was 1.7% and 1.2% for the femoral neck and total hip measurements, respectively [ 44].

Errors in the recorded lunar month (typically amounting to no more than a single month) are fairly common, but both the year and the recorded day of the sexagenary cycle are invariably correct.

Since the ranging capabilities of ground stations improved by more than two orders of magnitude, now, because of the lunar librations, Apollo CCR arrays dominate the error budget.

By that time, the accumulation of errors in the Julian solar and lunar calendars had made it the de facto state of affairs that Julian Easter always followed Hebrew Nisan 14.