THE PHEURA07 CAMPAIGN OF OBSERVATIONS OF MUTUAL PHENOMENA OF THE URANIAN SATELLITES IN 2006-2010

Prediction of mutual events

• Table of predictions of th events occurring in 2006-2010

Tools for the observation of the mutual events

• Interactive software allowing the determination of the visibility of the phenomena for a given site of observation
• Download a software for your PC for the determination of the configurations of the satellites for a given date
• Graphic Interactive software for the prediction and the drawing of the geometric configurations of the satellites during the mutual events (in building...)

ownload here the observational sheet to be filled up and sent back after each observation.

Technical Notes PHEMU

• Technical Note n°1 (Presentation of the events)
• Technical Note n°2 (Bibliography)
• Technical Note n°3 (Photometry of the events)
• Technical Note n°4 (Video observation of the events)
• Technical Note n°5 (CCD observation of the events)
• Technical Note n°6 (Visual observation of the events)
• Technical Note n°7 (Bibliography of Saturnian mutual events and Pluto-Charon events)
• Technical Note n°8 (Examples of light curves)

Data for the observers

In 2006-2007, the Earth and the Sun will pass through the orbital plane of the Uranian satellites. This occur only every 42 years and allow the occurrence of mutual events from 2006 to 2010. This type of observation has been performed since 1973 for the Galilean and the Saturnian satellites. Observations have been made and provide valuable data as astrometric (in order to validate the dynamical models of the system) as planetologic (physical structure of the surfaces of the satellites) mainly because we have observations over a long intervalle of time. These observations are difficult to make because of the faint brightness of the satellites (their magnitude is around 15). In order to help the observers, we propose documents below.

Local conditions of visibility for several sites.

Proceedings of colloquia colloques on the mutual phenomena

• V^th workshop on mutual events and astrometry of planetary satellites, March 4-8, 1997, Catania, Italy (final announcement)
• Conference given at ESOP XV, Berlin, Aug. 1996
• Mutual events of the Galilean satellites: the PHEMU97 campaign (Peniscola Workshop, 1996, Spain) 
• Hands-on-Universe HOU, colloque tenu à Paris, juillet 2002

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