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29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann

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 m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 6.262 AU
d (dist/Earth) 6.296 AU
Right ascension12 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 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-25 °C
Binning1x1
MountPERL-VIXEN
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time2640 s
Exposure details22 x 120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation139 °
Air mass2.28
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP
Observation submission date2011 Dec 30 22h29m38s
Observation modification date2011 Dec 30 22h41m12s

(Record n° 5451)

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