29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 6262)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Mar 21 23h38 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.3 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.260 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.288 AU Right ascension 12 25 10.83 h m s Declination -12 53 45.0 ° ' " 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 2012.03.21 and 22
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0029P C2012 03 21.98488 12 25 10.83 -12 53 45.0 16.4 N C10
0029P C2012 03 21.99584 12 25 10.52 -12 53 43.4 16.3 N C10
0029P C2012 03 22.00687 12 25 10.29 -12 53 42.4 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 4 Moon elongation 163 ° Air mass 2.12 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 LOG FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Mar 22 08h59m03s Observation modification date 2012 Mar 22 11h33m51s