29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 220)
Perihelion distance : 5.8 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 9 °
Orbital period : 14.91 years
Eccentricity : 0.04
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2009 Oct 26 02h50 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.5 Aperture radius for m2 6 " r (dist/Sun) 6.170 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.462 AU Right ascension 146.10917 ° Declination +13.14483 ° Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 254 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9X4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765X510 Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PERL-VIXEN Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 360 s Exposure details 3X120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 159 ° Air mass 2.22 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNOB1.0 Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.54 "/pix Image processing PRISMV6 APE Observation submission date 2010 May 07 15h20m03s Observation modification date 2010 May 09 14h59m55s