29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 9918)
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 17 23h29 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.7 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 4.8 " r (dist/Sun) 6.201 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.493 AU Right ascension 207.3605 ° Declination -20.81881 ° MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.F Soulier, J.G Bosch
MEA J.F Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2013.08.17
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P KC2013 08 17.97836 13 49 26.52 -20 49 07.7 17.8 N W96
0029P KC2013 08 18.02254 13 49 27.71 -20 49 10.8 17.6 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter R (RGB) Camera QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor pixels number 3326 x 2504 Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 30 X 120s Moon elongation 70 ° Air mass 1.28 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 18 06h53m15s Observation modification date 2013 Aug 18 06h55m01s