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Improvement of Orbits of Satellites of Saturn Using Photographic Observations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A.T. Sinclair
A.T. Sinclair*
Affiliation:
Royal Greenwich Observatory

Abstract

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A programme of photographic observations of the satellites of Saturn, and the method of reduction and analysis are described. The observations have been used to update existing theories of Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Titan. A new theory of the motion of lapetus has been fitted to the observations.

Type
Part IV. Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, and Artificial Satellites
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 41: Dynamics of Planets and Satellites and Theories of their Motion , 1978 , pp. 238
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1978