29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 8153)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Dec 11 05h59 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.9 Aperture radius used for m2 6 " r (dist/Sun) 6.239 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.867 AU Right ascension 13 49 35.35 h m s Declination -20 00 53.7 ° ' " MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.30-m f/3 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.12.11
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0029P KC2012 12 11.24928 13 49 35.35 -20 00 53.7 16.9 N C10
0029P KC2012 12 11.25836 13 49 35.64 -20 00 57.2 16.9 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9 x 4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765 x 510 Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60 Autoguide Yes Exposure details 12 x 120s Seeing 4 Moon elongation 19 ° Air mass 3.96 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 LOG FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Dec 11 09h06m00s Observation modification date 2012 Dec 12 00h12m56s