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29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann

Orbital period : 14.85 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2012 May 12 20h55 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)15.2
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
r (dist/Sun) 6.258 AU
d (dist/Earth) 5.517 AU
Right ascension12 06 36.71 h m s
Declination-10 47 08.7 ° ' "
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 2012.05.12
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0029P         C2012 05 12.87186 12 06 36.71 -10 47 08.7          15.2 N      C10
0029P         C2012 05 12.88788 12 06 36.50 -10 47 07.1          15.2 N      C10
0029P         C2012 05 12.90810 12 06 36.29 -10 47 05.1          15.2 N      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountF60a
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time2520 s
Exposure details21 x 120s
Seeing3
Moon elongation136 °
Air mass1.97
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-3
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.5 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP GIMP Session en automatique
Observation submission date2012 May 13 13h09m49s
Observation modification date2012 May 13 16h46m44s

(Record n° 6476)

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