Description
In this paper, we publish measurements of 864 positions of the major satellites of Uranus made in 1995-1997 using CCD (1024"*1024") detectors attached to the 1.56-metre Astrometric Telescope at the Sheshan station near Shanghai. Analysis of the data as inter-satellite positions shows that the observations of Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Mirand relative to Oberon have root-mean-square residuals of 0.03"-0.05", except for the innermost and faintest satellite Miranda, whose residuals exceeded 0.08" due to the proximity of Uranus.
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