Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 136, 257-259
D. Harper 1,2 - K. Beurle 2 - I.P. Williams 2 - C.D. Murray 2 - D.B. Taylor 1 - A. Fitzsimmons 3 - I.M. Cartwright 3
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1 - Royal Greenwich Observatory
Madingley Road,
Cambridge CB3 0EZ,
UK
2 -
Astronomy Unit,
Queen Mary and Westfield College,
University of London,
Mile End Road,
London E1 4NS,
UK
3 -
Astrophysics and Planetary Science Division,
School of Mathematics and Physics,
The Queen's University of Belfast,
Belfast BT7 1NN,
Northern Ireland
Received November 2; accepted November 24, 1998
In this paper, we publish measurements of 1514 positions of the major satellites of Saturn made in 1995 and 1997 using CCD detectors attached to the 1-metre Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope on the island of La Palma. Analysis of the data as inter-satellite positions shows that the observations of Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Titan have root-mean-square residuals of in 1995 and in 1997.
Key words: satellites of Saturn -- astrometry
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