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[2] "Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses", Espenak and Meeus
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http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/deltatpoly2004.html
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[3] "On the system of astronomical constants", Clemence, G. M.,
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Astronomical Journal, Vol. 53, p. 169
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[4] "The Rotation of the Earth, and the Secular Accelerations of the Sun, Moon and Planets",
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Spencer Jones, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 99 (1939), 541-558
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[5] "Polynomial approximations for the correction delta T E.T.-U.T. in the period 1800-1975",
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Schmadel, L. D.; Zech, G., Acta Astronomica, vol. 29, no. 1, 1979, p. 101-104.
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[6] "ELP 2000-85 and the dynamic time-universal time relation", Borkowski, K. M.,
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Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 205, no. 1-2, Oct. 1988, p. L8-L10.
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[7] "Empirical Transformations from U.T. to E.T. for the Period 1800-1988",
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Schmadel, L. D.; Zech, G., Astronomische Nachrichten 309, 219-221
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[8] "Historical values of the Earth's clock error DeltaT and the calculation of eclipses",
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Morrison, L. V.; Stephenson, F. R., Journal for the History of Astronomy (ISSN 0021-8286),
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[9] "Addendum: Historical values of the Earth's clock error", Morrison, L. V.; Stephenson, F. R.,
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Journal for the History of Astronomy (ISSN 0021-8286), Vol. 36, Part 3, No. 124, p. 339 (2005)
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[10] "Polynomial approximations to Delta T, 1620-2000 AD", Meeus, J.; Simons, L.,
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Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.110, no.6, 323
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[11] "Einstein's Theory of Relativity Confirmed by Ancient Solar Eclipses", Henriksson G.,
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http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ASPC..409..166H
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[12] "Canon of Solar Eclipses" by Mucke & Meeus (1983)
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[13] "The accelerations of the earth and moon from early astronomical observations",
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Muller P. M., Stephenson F. R.,
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http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975grhe.conf..459M
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[14] "Pre-Telescopic Astronomical Observations", Stephenson F. R.,
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http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978tfer.conf....5S
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[15] "Long-term changes in the rotation of the earth - 700 B.C. to A.D. 1980",
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Stephenson F. R., Morrison L. V.,
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Philosophical Transactions, Series A (ISSN 0080-4614), vol. 313, no. 1524, Nov. 27, 1984, p. 47-70.
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[16] "Long-Term Fluctuations in the Earth's Rotation: 700 BC to AD 1990",
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Stephenson F. R., Morrison L. V.,
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Philosophical Transactions: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Volume 351, Issue 1695, pp. 165-202
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[17] "Historical Eclipses and Earth's Rotation" by F. R. Stephenson (1997)
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[18] "Astronomical Algorithms" by J. Meeus (2nd ed., 1998)
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[19] "Astronomy on the Personal Computer" by O. Montenbruck & T. Pfleger (4nd ed., 2000)
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[20] "Calendrical Calculations" by E. M. Reingold & N. Dershowitz (2nd ed., 2001)
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[21] DeltaT webpage by V. Reijs: http://www.iol.ie/~geniet/eng/DeltaTeval.htm
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library version 1.4 Mike Gorchak <mike@malva.ua> (SGI FREE SOFTWARE
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3.1 The Hipparcos star catalog
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4.15 Images of NGC104, NGC281, NGC5139, NGC6543, NGC6960, NGC7023, NGC7317,
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4.17 Image of eta Carinae
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4.18 Images of IC1805, IC1848, NGC6888
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4.19 Images of IC2944, IC4628, M20, M21, M47
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