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Nevermind about the first bit, I figured out that I needed to express the change in RA versus the change in Dec of Oberon with respect to Uranus to get an ellipse. However, with my data points the eccentricity of the ellipse I fit to the data is on the order of .9 when it should be around .008...

I am kind of new to astronomy and I have a few questions.. I need to be able to determine an equation expressing the elliptical orbit of Oberon around Uranus. I have four nights of data showing Oberon in different positions relative to Uranus. I am able to calculate the RA and Dec for both...