Editing Ephemeris time (section)

==Use in official almanacs and ephemerides==
Ephemeris time based on the standard adopted in 1952 was introduced into the Astronomical Ephemeris (UK) and the [[American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac]], replacing UT in the main ephemerides in the issues for 1960 and after.<ref>[[#refESAA|ESAA 1992]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=uJ4JhGJANb4C&pg=PA612 at p. 612].</ref>  (But the ephemerides in the Nautical Almanac, by then a separate publication for the use of navigators, continued to be expressed in terms of UT.)  The ephemerides continued on this basis through 1983 (with some changes due to adoption of improved values of astronomical constants), after which, for 1984 onwards, they adopted the [[JPL]] ephemerides.

Previous to the 1960 change, the 'Improved Lunar Ephemeris' had already been made available in terms of ephemeris time for the years 1952—1959<ref>"Improved Lunar Ephemeris", US Government Printing Office, 1954.</ref> (computed by [[Wallace John Eckert|W J Eckert]] from [[Ernest William Brown|Brown]]'s theory with modifications recommended by Clemence (1948)).