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Astrometric effect

Earth Orientation Parameters

The measured quantities that describe how the real, wobbling, irregularly rotating Earth is oriented in space relative to the celestial reference frame — the difference UT1−UTC, the position of the pole (polar motion), and small corrections to the precession-nutation model. Determined and published by the IERS, they are what make it possible to transform between celestial and terrestrial coordinates to full precision.

Highlights

  • UT1−UTC, polar motion, and nutation offsets from the IERS

Across the reference systems

Knowledge connections

Sources

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

  • IAUInternational Astronomical Union

    Official naming, definitions, constellation boundaries, and astronomical nomenclature.