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78:. The differences between these time standards are of the order of a minute, so that for minute accuracy of timings the standard used has to be stated. The HJD correction involves the heliocentric position of the Earth, which is expressed in TT. While the practical choice may be UTC, the natural choice is TT. 47:, the time the event is observed depends on the changing position of the observer in the Solar System. Before multiple observations can be combined, they must be reduced to a common, fixed, reference location. This correction also depends on the direction to the object or event being timed. 59:. Elsewhere, it is approximately an annual sine curve, and the highest amplitude occurs on the ecliptic. The maximum correction corresponds to the time in which light travels the distance from the Sun to the Earth, i.e. ±8.3 min (500 s, 0.0058 days). 638: 264: 85:
of the Solar System, the HJD correction is not actually to a fixed reference. The difference between correction to the heliocentre and to the barycentre is up to ±4 s. For second accuracy, the
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The common formulation of the HJD correction assumes that the object is at infinite distance, certainly beyond the Solar System. The resulting error for
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Eastman, Jason; Siverd, Robert; Gaudi, B. Scott (2010). "Achieving Better Than 1 Minute Accuracy in the Heliocentric and Barycentric Julian Dates".
195: 104:– which is closer than the Sun – can be wrongly placed on the far side of the Sun, resulting in an error of about 15 min. 82: 729: 721: 343: 534: 775: 538: 75: 648: 86: 93: 770: 685: 701: 675: 97: 144: 115: 725: 717: 633:{\displaystyle HJD=JD-{\frac {r}{c}}\cdot \cos(\beta )\cdot \cos(\lambda -\lambda _{\odot })} 301: 278: 693: 321: 71: 273: 16:
Julian Date (JD) corrected for differences in the Earth's position with respect to the Sun
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Sky catalogue 2000.0, volume 2, double stars, variable stars and nonstellar objects
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is the distance between Sun and observer. The same equation can be used with any
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The correction is zero (HJD = JD) for objects at the poles of the
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from the observer toward the object or event, and the speed of light
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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from the heliocentre to the observer, the unit vector
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Index

Julian Date
Earth
Sun
Solar System
speed of light
ecliptic
time standard
UTC, UT1
TT
TAI
barycentre
Barycentric Julian Date
Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt
main asteroid belt
Moon
scalar product
right ascension
declination
astronomical coordinate system
ecliptic coordinates
Barycentric Julian Date
Time standard
arXiv
1005.4415
Bibcode
2010PASP..122..935E
doi
10.1086/655938
S2CID
54726821

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