New evidence of precision premium for Galilean satellites from CCD imaging

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 56, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1807-1811

  Peng, Q Y ^a,b,e   Vienne, A ^a,b,c   Lainey, V ^b   Noyelles, B ^a,b,d  

^a JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Astrometry; CCD imaging; Galilean satellites; Image processing

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; ORBITS; SEPARATION; TELESCOPES; TRACKING (POSITION);

ASTROMETRY; CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; CCD IMAGING; GALILEAN SATELLITES; LONG FOCAL LENGTHS; PHOTOGRAPHIC OBSERVATION; PLANETARY SATELLITES; POSITIONAL MEASUREMENTS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 55349099832     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2008.02.020     Document Type: Article

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