Hi Bill,

do you know if there are orbital element updates for the moons of the
outer planets available and is it possible to import them into Guide?

The background is the folowing: I know that you are interested in the
motion of the moons of the outer planets. The images for which I
posted my previous mail were taken by a guy who wanted to see if he
could get the saturnian moon S/2000 S3. By visual inspection he
found that the position was off by several 10s of arcsec. I did the
astrometry for him. Here are my results:

COD XXX
OBS M. Fiedler
MEA B. Brinkmann
TEL 0.35-m f/4.5 Maksutov-Newton + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2005.01.19 18:42:42
AC2 bernd.brinkmann@...
NET USNO-A2.0
S2000S3 C2005 01 17.00883 07 39 32.54 +20 35 17.1 19.1 R
S2000S3 C2005 01 17.03097 07 39 32.02 +20 35 18.3 19.5 R
S2000S3 C2005 01 17.04183 07 39 31.81 +20 35 19.2 19.5 R
S2000S3 C2005 01 17.05238 07 39 31.58 +20 35 18.8 18.4 R

Guide gives the following position for the first image:
S/2000 S 3 mag 19.8
Rektaszension: 07h39m29.145s
Deklination: +20 35' 34.84"


Clear skies
Bernd

Bernd Brinkmann

Sternwarte Herne, #A18
Herne, Germany

e-mail: info@...
http://www.sternwarte-herne.de