Contents.
planet: 5 - Jupiter
satellites: J1 - Io : 79,
J2 - Europa : 24,
J3 - Ganymede : 1,
total number: 104
type: relative-APPROX
dates: 2016-2018
observatory: IAU-874 OPD - Itajuba/MG-Brazil
IAU-X57 FOZ - Foz do Iguacu/PR-Brazi
FEG - Guaratinguet ́a/SP-Brazil
GOA - Vitoria/ES-Brazil
UTF - Curitiba/PR-Brazil
IAU-511 OHP - Haute de Province/France
Reference.
Morgado B., Vieira-Martins R., Assafin M., Machado D. I., Camargo J. I. B.,
Sfair R., Malacarne M., Braga-Ribas F., Robert V., Bassallo T., Benedetti-Rossi G.,
Boldrin L. A., Borderes-Motta G., Camargo, B. C. B., Crispim A., Dias-Oliveira A.,
Gomes-Junior A. R., Lainey V., Miranda J. O., Moura T. S., Ribeiro F. K.,
de Santana T., Santos-Filho S., Trabuco L. L., Winter, O. C., Yamashita, T. A. R. (2018)
APPROX -- Mutual approximations between the Galilean moons.
The 2016-2018 observational campaign.
eprint arXiv:1811.02913
2018arXiv181102913M
Informations.
relative to: reference body:
J2 - Europa : 43,
J3 - Ganymede : 43,
J4 - Callisto : 18
reference frame: no object
centre of frame: topocenter
epoch of equinox: no object
time scale: UTC
reduction: from mutual approximations
coordinates: Central Instant of Mutual approximations
diff. refraction: no information
receptor: CCD
telescope: see article
observers: see article
data included in standard data file: no
Comments.
The technique of mutual approximations accurately gives the central instant
at the maximum apparent approximation of two moving natural satellites in the sky plane.
Observatory coordinates:
OPD: 45 deg 34' 57.5'' W 22 deg 32' 07.8'' S Alt 1864 m
FOZ: 54 deg 35' 37.0'' W 25 deg 26' 05.0'' S Alt 184 m
FEG: 45 deg 11' 25.5'' W 22 deg 48' 05.5'' S Alt 543 m
GOA: 40 deg 19' 00.0'' W 20 deg 17' 52.0'' S Alt 26 m
UTF: 49 deg 11' 45.8'' W 25 deg 28' 24.6'' S Alt 861 m
OHP: 5 deg 42' 56.5'' E 43 deg 55' 54.7'' N Alt 633 m
Format.
1. Year of the Central Instant of Mutual approximation
2. Month of the Central Instant of Mutual approximation
3. Day of the Central Instant of Mutual approximation
4. Hour of the Central Instant of Mutual approximation (UTC)
5. Minute of the Central Instant of Mutual approximation (UTC)
6. Seconds of the Central Instant of Mutual approximation (UTC)
7. Sat1, number of the first satellite in the pair of the Mutual approximation
8. Sat2, number of the second satellite in the pair of the Mutual approximation
9. sigma t0, the central instant error in seconds of time
10. sigma t0, the central instant error in mas
(using the relative velocity in each event obtained with the ephemeris}
11. Delta t - the difference of t0 in seconds of time between the observation and the ephemeris
jup310 (with DE435) from JPL in the sense "observation minus ephemeris"
12. Delta t - the difference of t0 in mas between the observation and the ephemeris
jup310 (with DE435) from JPL in the sense "observation minus ephemeris"
13. N, sequential number with time that labels each observed mutual approximation
14. Obs code, the code of observatory (see above)
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Year
month Sat1 sigma t0 Delta t N Obs
day h m s Sat2 sec mas sec mas code
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