29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 11047)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Feb 03 06h42 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.8 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 3.4 " r (dist/Sun) 6.166 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.386 AU Right ascension 15 48 40.62 h m s Declination -29 09 10.5 ° ' " 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 2014.02.03
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P KC2014 02 03.27902 15 48 40.62 -29 09 10.5 17.8 N W96
0029P KC2014 02 03.28923 15 48 40.97 -29 09 12.0 17.7 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Camera QHY 9 Sensor CCD Sensor pixels number 3326 x 2504 Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 10 x 120s Moon elongation 119 ° Air mass 2.28 Observatory MPC code W96 Location Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2014 Feb 03 09h54m51s Observation modification date 2014 Feb 03 15h15m51s