合的平均时刻可以很容易的从月球平黄经减去太阳平黄经的算表中计算出来(迪罗尼参数D)。琼·米斯在他的《天文学计算公式》一书中所给的计算公式是依据布朗和纽康的星历表(ca. 1900),并且是他的《天文算法》的第一版[4],以ELP2000-85为基础[5](第二版在1998年,使用从Chapront et al.改进的ELP2000-82),这些现在都已经过时了(2002年)[6]。出版后改善了参数,并且米斯的公式使用可变的分数,可以做四种主要相位的计算,并且使用第二个变数做一般项目。为了读者的方便,上述的公式根据Chapront最后修正的参数并且以单一的整数做为唯一的变数,并且加入了下列的项目:
在ELP2000–85(参见Chapront et alii 1988),D是一个二次项的函数,其值为 −5.8681"T²;阴历月的数量用N表示,产生的修正式为+87.403×10–12N²[12],得到与合的时刻相差的天数。这个项目内包含了0.5×(−23.8946 "/cy²)的潮汐加速。目前最佳的估计是来自月球激光阵列的加速度(参见Chapront et alii 2002):(−25.858 ±0.003)"/cy²。因此,新的二次项参数D是 -6.8498"T²[13]。实际上,Chapront et alii(2002)提供了多项式的证明,在他们的表4也提供了相同的证明。这项转换修改了到合的时刻为+14.622×10−12N²天;这个二项式现在成为:
Annual aberration is the ratio of Earth's orbital velocity (around 30 km/s) to the speed of light (about 300,000 km/s), which shifts the Sun's apparent position relative to the celestial sphere toward the west by about 1/10,000 radian. Light-time correction for the Moon is the distance it moves during the time it takes its light to reach Earth divided by the Earth-Moon distance, yielding an angle in radians by which its apparent position lags behind its computed geometric position. Light-time correction for the Sun is negligible because it is almost motionless during 8.3 minutes relative to the barycenter (center-of-mass) of the solar system. The aberration of light for the Moon is also negligible (the center of the Earth moves too slowly around the Earth-Moon barycenter (0.002 km/s); and the so-called diurnal aberration, caused by the motion of an observer on the surface of the rotating Earth (0.5 km/s at the equator) can be neglected. Although aberration and light-time are often combined as planetary aberration, Meeus separated them (op.cit. p.210).
Derived Constant #14 from the IAU (1976) System of Astronomical Constants (proceedings of IAU Sixteenth General Assembly (1976): Transactions of the IAU XVIB p.58 (1977)); or any astronomical almanac; or e.g.[1] (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
formula in: G.M.Clemence, J.G.Porter, D.H.Sadler (1952): "Aberration in the lunar ephemeris", Astronomical Journal57(5) (#1198) pp.46..47 [2] (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); but computed with the conventional value of 384400 km for the mean distance which gives a different rounding in the last digit.
Apparent mean solar longitude is −20.496" from mean geometric longitude; apparent mean lunar longitude −0.704" from mean geometric longitude; correction to D = Moon − Sun is −0.704" + 20.496" = +19.792" that the apparent Moon is ahead of the apparent Sun; divided by 360×3600"/circle is 1.527×10−5 part of a circle; multiplied by 29.53... days for the Moon to travel a full circle with respect to the Sun is 0.000451 days that the apparent Moon reaches the apparent Sun ahead of time.
see e.g.存档副本. [2006-12-17]. (原始内容存档于2007-02-02).; the IERS is the official source for these numbers; they provide TAI−UTChere (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) and UT1−UTC here (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); ΔT = 32.184s + (TAI−UTC) − (UT1−UTC)