29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 12821)
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 Oct 26 23h41 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.100 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.910 AU Right ascension 241.28388 ° Declination -28.31389 ° 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 2014.10.26
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P KC2014 10 26.98672 16 05 08.13 -28 18 50.0 16.1 N W96
0029P KC2014 10 26.99971 16 05 08.74 -28 18 50.6 15.9 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 QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 19 x 60s Moon elongation 12 ° Air mass 3.09 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 Oct 27 01h56m28s Observation modification date 2014 Oct 27 01h57m45s