29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 6494)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 May 16 20h52 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.3 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.257 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.563 AU Right ascension 12 05 57.87 h m s Declination -10 39 20.4 ° ' " 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 2012.05.16
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0029P C2012 05 16.86940 12 05 57.87 -10 39 20.4 15.3 N C10
0029P C2012 05 16.88367 12 05 57.74 -10 39 18.7 15.3 N C10
0029P C2012 05 16.89951 12 05 57.60 -10 39 16.9 15.3 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 2400 s Exposure details 20 x 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 172 ° Air mass 1.99 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 FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 May 17 17h24m06s Observation modification date 2012 May 17 17h31m14s