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29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann

Orbital period : 14.85 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 May 05 20h32 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)14.4
Aperture radius used for m28 "
Coma diameter3.4 '
r (dist/Sun) 6.255 AU
d (dist/Earth) 5.730 AU
Right ascension10 41 36.19 h m s
Declination+01 35 27.2 ° ' "
MPC report
COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.255-m f/3.6 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.05.05
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0029P         C2011 05 05.85536 10 41 36.19 +01 35 27.2          14.4 N      C10
0029P         C2011 05 05.87182 10 41 36.15 +01 35 27.9          14.4 N      C10
0029P         C2011 05 05.89157 10 41 36.08 +01 35 28.7          14.4 N      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)254 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.6
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning1x1
MountPERL-VIXEN
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time2400 s
Exposure details20 x 120s
Seeing3
Moon elongation87 °
Air mass1.51
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 APE DDP FC
Observation submission date2011 May 06 01h49m29s
Observation modification date2011 May 06 14h26m53s

(Record n° 2735)

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