Differences in apparent right ascension (Da
cosd) and apparent declination
(d) of the Moon computed using the new IAU2000B
Precession-Nutation model and the IAU1980 Theory of Nutation. The calculations were made using the DE405/LE405 ephemerides, which are
currently used in the Astron. Almanac
(Bangert
2002, Proc. IERS Workshop)
Earth orientation parameters (precession, nutation, GST) in the old FK5
reference system
(Nicole
Capitaine 2002, Proc. IERS Workshop)
Earth orientation parameters (E, d, q)
in the GCRS
(Nicole
Capitaine 2002, Proc. IERS Workshop)
The two paradigms
(Seidelmann
& Kovalevsky, 2002, A&A 392, 341–351)
The Non-Rotating Origin with respect to the ITRF
(S.
Lambert & C. Bizouard 2002, Proc. IERS Workshop,
IERS Techn. Note No. 29, p. 103)
Corrections [in mas] to the nutation angles
Dysine and
De (lower,
taken
from the IERS web
site) and differences [in m] in x and
y coordinates of the EXPLORER detector position transformed to ICRF with
the classical (no corrections for the pole offsets) and
new IAU procedures (top panel)
Recent polar motion (modified
figure
from the IERS web site)