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A Collection of Galilean Satellite Eclipses 1652–1982

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Jay H. Lieske
Jay H. Lieske*
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California 91109 U.S.A.

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It is known that early (i.e. 17th-l8th century) visual observations of Jupiter's Galilean satellites are approximately as accurate as modern visually observed eclipses (Lieske 1982). In the early days the clocks were the primary source of error while in present days problems related to the Earth's and Jupiter's atmospheres have become the primary limiting factor. The early observations were generally made in local apparent time (i.e. related to the real hour angle of the sun). After the development by Huygens in 1656 of the pendulum clock, these early observations, when reduced to a modern UT system, have been shown to be quite accurate.

Type
Part I - Satellites and Planets
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 74: Dynamical Trapping and Evolution in the Solar System , 1983 , pp. 51 - 59
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983

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