References: Moons of Uranus

• Extensive general information on Uranus and its moons can be found in Bill Arnett's wonderful The Nine Planets web site; see the sections on Uranus, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon.

• "Uranus : the planet, rings and satellites" by Ellis D. Miner which is available in the University Library

• The moons can be identified using NASA's Uranus Viewer 2.1 or NASA's Uranus Moon Tracker 2.0 or NASA/JPL/Caltec's solar system simulator, e.g. the predictions for 22:10 on 2002-Sep-09 or using the current Astronomical Almanac

• Very accurate positions for Uranus's moons can be found at JPL's HORIZONS System via their Ephemeris Generator. The observatory code for the old Durham observatory is 995.

• A detailed discussion of motions of the Uranus's satellites can be found in "Orbital Ephemerides of Satellites" by J.R.Rohde and A Sinclair, (Chapter 6, Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac).

• Astrolab's Orbital Determination References

• Solarviews' page on Uranus

• Positions of Uranus and its main satellites by Veiga, Martins and Andrei, 2003, Ap.J. 124,2714

• Chapter 7 of "The Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing" by Richard Berry and James Burnell is an excellent introduction to astrometry. This book also contains very good general information about the reduction of CCD data. A brief introduction to deconvolution is given in Chapter 16. A copy is available in the AstroLab and in the University's Main Library

• Christian Buil's CCD Astronomy is also another excellent book. A copy is available in the AstroLab and in the University's Main Library

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