29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 12281)
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 Aug 06 23h44 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.1 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.122 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.839 AU Right ascension 230.09546 ° Declination -27.81728 ° 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 2014.08.06 and 07
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P KC2014 08 06.98908 15 20 22.91 -27 49 02.2 17.2 N W96
0029P KC2014 08 07.03471 15 20 23.40 -27 48 59.2 17.0 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 temperature -40 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 30 x 120s Moon elongation 29 ° Air mass 1.02 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 2014 Aug 07 03h21m21s Observation modification date 2014 Aug 07 03h22m22s