29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 11825)
Perihelion distance : 5.8 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 9 °
Orbital period : 14.91 years
Eccentricity : 0.04
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 May 20 06h21 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15 Aperture radius for m2 5.6 " Coma diameter 1.5 ' r (dist/Sun) 6.141 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.144 AU Right ascension 234.48321 ° Declination -30.47747 ° MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.-G Bosch
MEA J.-G Bosch
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.05.16 14:41:18
AC2 jean-gabriel.bosch@unige.ch
NET UCAC-4
0029P C2014 05 20.26467 15 37 55.97 -30 28 38.9 15.0 N W96
0029P C2014 05 20.29238 15 37 55.10 -30 28 36.0 15.0 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter None Camera QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 2x2 Autoguide Yes Exposure details 19x2mn Air mass 1.30 Observatory MPC code W96 Location SpaceObs W96 Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix URL for more information or pictures http://transitionsciel.blogspot.fr/ Observation submission date 2014 May 20 11h42m44s Observation modification date 2014 May 20 15h33m00s