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The sets of photographic observations of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter taken at the Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia are analyzed here. Positional observations of the system of Jupiter were made in the period from 1985 to 1994 with the use of the double Zeiss astrograph in order to determine the exact coordinates of Jupiter and its satellites. The accurate positions of the satellites and Jupiter itself, as well as their stellar (equatorial) coordinates relative to the stars of the currently available catalogs and the relative “satellite — satellite” coordinates were obtained from the observations. From the comparison of the observation results with the modern theories of motion of satellites, the accuracy in determining the positions of the satellites and Jupiter was analyzed. The results of observations are presented in the Pulkovo database of observations of Solar System bodies that is accessible to users at http://www.puldb.ru.
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Original Russian Text © T.P. Kiseleva, S.M. Chanturiya, T.A. Vasil’eva, O.A. Kalinichenko, 2012, published in Astronomicheskii Vestnik, 2012, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 418–420.
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Kiseleva, T.P., Chanturiya, S.M., Vasil’eva, T.A. et al. The accuracy of observations of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter taken at the Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia. Sol Syst Res 46, 387–389 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0038094612040041
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