FT North Data Contributes to Paper on the Movements of the Moons of Uranus
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Reserchers using FT North have had a paper accepted for publication in the journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A).
The team, led by Apostolos Christou of Armagh Observatory, have reported the results of observations of eight recent eclipses and occultations of the systems of moons around Uranus.
Their data has helped improve the positional accuracy to which these objects are known, and in many cases show that the actual eclipses occurred later than previous astronomers had predicted.
FT team members, Paul Roche and Fraser Lewis, as well as LCOGT astronomers Marty Hidas and Tim Brown, are contributing authors to the paper, which will appear in a forthcoming issue of A&A.
Their work is part of an ongoing campaign imaging satellites of the Solar System's planets, with Jupiter's moon, Amalthea, next in their sights.
