29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 12494)
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 Sep 05 23h45 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) 6.114 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.296 AU Right ascension 232.70721 ° Declination -27.59567 ° 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 2014.09.05 and 06
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P C2014 09 05.98993 15 30 49.73 -27 35 44.4 17.1 N W96
0029P C2014 09 06.01527 15 30 50.42 -27 35 44.8 17.2 N W96
0029P C2014 09 06.04289 15 30 51.25 -27 35 45.1 17.1 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 -35 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 30 x 120s Moon elongation 64 ° Air mass 1.23 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 Sep 06 08h41m45s Observation modification date 2014 Sep 06 08h42m29s