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Description: Calculates the ephemeris of a solar system object (asteroid, comet, planet).
Input: The object name, number of designation, ephemeris interval (date/time UT) and step (days).
Output: Ephemeris (RA and Dec), apparent magnitude (V), Delta (Earth distance) and r (Sun distance, in a.u.),
proper motion (in RA and Dec, in arcsec/min), elongation from Sun, phase angle, galactic latitude (all in degrees),
sky uncertainties (in RA and Dec) and the orientation on sky of the uncertainty ellipse (in degrees), calculated at geocentre.
Queries: The Miriade and SsODNet services (Berthier et al., IMCCE/Obs Paris).
Using: The OrbFit Software Package (OrbFit Consortium - A. Milani et al, 2017) installed locally.

Designation:

SsODNet is used to check designations.
The designation for the asteroids must respect one of the following formats: 1, Vesta, 1996 FG3
The designation for the comets must respect one of the following formats: c:19P,c:P/2004 T1,c:C/2005 A1-B,c:73P-E


Ephemeris generator:  MiriadeOrbFit

Computation interval:
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Stop:  
Step (days):  

Output style:HTML tableSimple textCSV format

Reference: Please include the following acknowledgement in any publication using this service:
"This paper used the EURONEAR Ephemeris from Designation \footnote{http://www.euronear.org/tools/ephdes.php}".

Author: Lucian Curelaru (2017)