Contents.
planet: 5 - Jupiter
satellites: J6 - Himalia : 14,
J7 - Elara : 11,
J8 - Pasiphae : 13,
J9 - Sinope : 3,
J10 - Lysithea : 2,
J11 - Carme : 8,
J12 - Ananke : 2
total number: 53
type: absolute
dates: 1990-1992
observatory: 381 - Tokyo-Kiso
Reference.
Nakamura Tsuko, and Sasaki Goro, (1998)
Astrometric Observations of the Jovian Outer Satellites for 1990-1992.
Astronomical Journal. V. 115. N. 4. P. 1664-1666.
1998AJ____115_1664N
Informations.
relative to: absolute
reference frame: astrometric (see comments below)
centre of frame: topocentre
epoch of equinox: B1950.0 and J2000 (see comments)
time scale: UTC
reduction: PDSP plate reduction software (see comments below)
coordinates: absolute
diff. refraction: no information
receptor: photographic
telescope: Schmidt telescope, D = 1.05 m.
observers: Nakamura T., Sasaki G.
data included in standard data file: no
Comments.
1. Positions in columns 5 - 10 (equinox B1950.0)
are obtained directly from PDSP plate
reduction software, so they are astrometric positions affected
by the E-term of aberration.
2. Positions in columns 11 - 16 (equinox J2000.0) are astrographic
positions free from the E-term of aberration, which were
converted from B1950.0 to J2000.0 using the procedure
recommended by the IAU Comission 20 Ad Hoc System
Transition Committee (1990). The conversion formulae are
basicallythe same as those seen in the Explanatory
Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac (Standish et al. 1992).
3. Values in the column 17, 18 are the formal standard deviations
of the residuals in the plate solutuion.
Format.
1. Number of satellite (N sat): 6 - J6, 7 - J7, 8 - J8, 9 - J9,
10 - J10, 11 - J11, 12 - J12
2. Year of the moment of observation
3. Month of the moment of observation
4. Day with decimals of the moment of observation
5. Hour of right ascension (alpha, h), B1950.0
6. Minute of right ascension (alpha, m), B1950.0
7. Second of right ascension (alpha, s), B1950.0
8. Degree of declination (delta, deg), B1950.0
9. Minute of declination (delta, ' ), B1950.0
10. Second of declination (delta, '' ), B1950.0
11. Hour of right ascension (alpha, h), J2000
12. Minute of right ascension (alpha, m), J2000
13. Second of right ascension (alpha, s), J2000
14. Degree of declination (delta, deg), J2000
15. Minute of declination (delta, ' ), J2000
16. Second of declination (delta, '' ), J2000
17. Unsertainty in Delta(alpha) cos(delta), arcsec
18. Unsertainty in Delta(delta), arcsec
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Year alpha delta alpha delta Unsertainties
N month B1950.0 B1950.0 J2000.0 J2000.0 D(alpha) D(delta)
sat day h m s deg ' '' h m s deg ' '' cos(delta)
with decimals arcsec arcsec
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