Delta-T

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John O’Neill
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Hi,

Yes Peter, that’s the USNO link I relied on for years, but in my brower (Firefox), it’s broken.

Just to be clear, the quantity, I was after, is Delta T = (TT – UT), where TT is Terrestrial Time and UT is Universal Time.

In J.Meeus Astronomical Algorithms 2nd Ed page 77 he states “The exact value of the difference Delta-T = TD – UT can be deducted only from observations”. I assume, for my purposes, TD and TT are interchangeable.

John