合的平均時刻可以很容易的從月球平黃經減去太陽平黃經的算表中計算出來(迪羅尼參數D)。瓊·米斯在他的《天文學計算公式》一書中所給的計算公式是依據布朗和紐康的星曆表(ca. 1900),並且是他的《天文演算法》的第一版[4],以ELP2000-85為基礎[5](第二版在1998年,使用從Chapront et al.改進的ELP2000-82),這些現在都已經過時了(2002年)[6]。出版後改善了參數,並且米斯的公式使用可變的分數,可以做四種主要相位的計算,並且使用第二個變數做一般項目。為了讀者的方便,上述的公式根據Chapront最後修正的參數並且以單一的整數做為唯一的變數,並且加入了下列的項目:
在ELP2000–85(參見Chapront et alii 1988),D是一個二次項的函數,其值為 −5.8681"T²;陰曆月的數量用N表示,產生的修正式為+87.403×10–12N²[12],得到與合的時刻相差的天數。這個項目內包含了0.5×(−23.8946 "/cy²)的潮汐加速。目前最佳的估計是來自月球雷射陣列的加速度(參見Chapront et alii 2002):(−25.858 ±0.003)"/cy²。因此,新的二次項參數D是 -6.8498"T²[13]。實際上,Chapront et alii(2002)提供了多項式的証明,在他們的表4也提供了相同的証明。這項轉換修改了到合的時刻為+14.622×10−12N²天;這個二項式現在成為:
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)