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Photographic observations of Saturn’s moons at the MAO NAS of Ukraine in 1961–1990

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A catalog of 1385 astrometric positions of Saturn’s moons S2–S9 has been compiled with Tycho-2 as a reference frame from photographic observations obtained at the Main Astronomical Observatory, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in 1961–1990. Astronegatives have been digitized with an Epson Expression 10000XL commercial scanner in 16-bit grayscale with a resolution of 1200 dpi. Reduction has been performed in the LINUX-MIDAS-ROMAFOT software supplemented with additional modules. The internal positional accuracy of the reduction is 0.09…0.23′′ for both coordinates and 0.27…0.37m for the photographic magnitudes of the Tycho-2 catalog. The calculated topocentric positions of the moons are compared online with the IMCCE ephemeris data (DE405 + TASS1,7). Moon-minus-moon differential coordinates are found for most of the moons and compared with theoretical data (http://lnfm1.sai.msu.ru/neb/nss/nssephmr.htm).

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Original Russian Text © O.M. Yizhakevych, V.M. Andruk, L.K. Pakuliak, 2017, published in Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, 2017, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 70–80.

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Yizhakevych, O.M., Andruk, V.M. & Pakuliak, L.K. Photographic observations of Saturn’s moons at the MAO NAS of Ukraine in 1961–1990. Kinemat. Phys. Celest. Bodies 33, 142–148 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0884591317030035

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