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Astrometry of five major Uranian satellites in 1995–1997
At the oppositions of 1995–1997, a total of 122 CCD frames
were taken on the 1.56 m astrometric telescope at the
Sheshan station, yielding 864 positions of the major Uranian satellites.
The calibration of the images was carried out using a least-squares
iterative program by fitting to the well-known orbits of the brighter
moons of Uranus, based on the modern theory GUST86 and an ephemeris
produced by numerical integration. The residuals lay
between 0\farcs03 and 0\farcs05 for each of
the inter-satellite positions,
except for the innermost and faintest satellite Miranda, whose residuals
exceeded 0\farcs08 due to the proximity
of Uranus. No significant systematic
errors were found when using satellites themselves for determining
calibration parameters. The largest residual in the comparison between
GUST86 and the numerical integration was about 0\farcs01