Rambam on Calendar
Table of Contents
Glossary
Astronomical Terms
- solar apogee
- Point on the orbit of the Sun where it is highest above the Earth. - aphelion/perihelion
- solar portion
- ???
- mean lunar anomaly
- in the original: אמצע המסלול
Mean angular coordinate of the Moon on its epicycle.
- corrected lunar anomaly
- in the original: מסלול הנכון
- mean lunar longitude
- in the original: אמצע הירח
- mean lunar longitude at observation time
- ???
- true lunar longitude
- in the original: הירח האמיתי
- true lunar longitude at the observation time
- ???
- doubled distance
- in the original: מרחק הכפול