Contents.
planet: 6 - Saturn
satellites: S1 - Mimas: 1
S2 - Enceladus: 9
S3 - Tethys: 14
S4 - Dione: 16
S5 - Rhea: 16
S6 - Titan: 16
S7 - Hyperion: 8
S8 - Iapetus: 12
total number: 92
type: absolute
dates: 1987-1988
observatory: 286 - Yunnan Observatory
334 - Tsingtao
Reference.
Yan D., Qiao R. C., Dourneau G., Yu Y.,
Zhang H. Y., Cheng X., Xi X. J. (2016)
Digitization and reduction of old astronomical plates of natural satellites.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2016. V. 457. Issue 3. P. 2900-2907.
2016MNRAS_457_2900Y
Informations.
relative to: absolute
reference frame: astrometric
center of frame: topocenter
epoch of equinox: ICRF
time scale: UTC
reduction: UCAC4
coordinates: absolute
diff. refraction: no information
receptor: photographic
telescope: see in the paper
observers: Yan D., Qiao R. C., Dourneau G., Yu Y., Zhang H. Y., Cheng X., Xi X. J.
data included in standard data file: no
Comments.
Some positions were obtained as new reduction
of previously published results. See the paper.
Format.
1. Number of satellite (N): 1 - S1, 2 - S2, ...
2. Year of the moment of observation
3. Month of the moment of observation
4. Day of the moment of observation with decimals
5. Right ascension (alpha), hours
6. Declination (delta), degrees
7. Observatory code
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N Year Day alpha delta Obs
Month hours degrrees code
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