29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 6476)
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 m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.258 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.517 AU Right ascension 12 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 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 2520 s Exposure details 21 x 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 136 ° Air mass 1.97 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DDP GIMP Session en automatique Observation submission date 2012 May 13 13h09m49s Observation modification date 2012 May 13 16h46m44s