... Foreword . ... The EPM2004 domestic numerical theory of movement of the Sun, the Moon, and major planets is used in тАЬNautical Astronomical YearbookтАЭ. ... the Sun, the Moon, four major planets (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) and of the 69 brightest navigational stars, and the time of the rising and setting of the Sun and the Moon, the time of the beginning and the end of civil and navigational twilights, the azimuths of the upper limb of the Sun on rising and setting. ...