29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 5451)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Dec 29 04h21 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.4 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 6.262 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.296 AU Right ascension 12 37 17.59 h m s Declination -12 00 30.0 ° ' " 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 2011.12.29
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0029P C2011 12 29.18144 12 37 17.59 -12 00 30.0 14.4 N C10
0029P C2011 12 29.19251 12 37 17.76 -12 00 32.0 14.4 N C10
0029P C2011 12 29.20664 12 37 17.96 -12 00 34.7 14.4 N C10
0029P C2011 12 29.21575 12 37 18.09 -12 00 36.5 14.4 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 254 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.6 Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9 x 4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765 x 510 Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PERL-VIXEN Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 2640 s Exposure details 22 x 120s Seeing 4 Moon elongation 139 ° Air mass 2.28 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.04 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP Observation submission date 2011 Dec 30 22h29m38s Observation modification date 2011 Dec 30 22h41m12s