29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 9855)
Perihelion distance : 5.8 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 9 °
Orbital period : 14.91 years
Eccentricity : 0.04
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2013 Aug 02 23h42 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.6 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 4.8 " r (dist/Sun) 6.204 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.270 AU Right ascension 205.70625 ° Declination -20.56219 ° MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.F Soulier
MEA J.F Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2013.08.02 and 03
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P KC2013 08 02.98782 13 42 49.50 -20 33 43.9 17.5 N W96
0029P KC2013 08 03.00806 13 42 49.97 -20 33 44.6 17.6 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Camera QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor pixels number 3326 x 2504 Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide No Exposure details 30 X 60s Moon elongation 123 ° Air mass 1.14 Observatory MPC code W96 Location Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2013 Aug 03 15h10m18s Observation modification date 2013 Aug 03 15h12m05s