29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 6250)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Mar 19 23h30 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.4 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.260 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.295 AU Right ascension 12 26 03.44 h m s Declination -12 57 45.6 ° ' " MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.300-m f/4 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.03.19 and 20
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0029P C2012 03 19.97931 12 26 03.44 -12 57 45.6 16.4 N C10
0029P C2012 03 19.99036 12 26 03.14 -12 57 44.3 16.4 N C10
0029P C2012 03 20.00119 12 26 02.85 -12 57 42.8 16.3 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4 Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9 x 4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765 x 510 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60a Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1800 s Exposure details 15 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 138 ° Air mass 2.17 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Mar 20 09h00m32s Observation modification date 2012 Mar 20 14h04m33s