29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 12833)
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 27 23h49 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.100 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.918 AU Right ascension 241.48904 ° Declination -28.33583 ° 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 2014.10.27 and 28
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P KC2014 10 27.99222 16 05 57.37 -28 20 09.0 16.1 N W96
0029P KC2014 10 28.00674 16 05 58.17 -28 20 10.3 16.2 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 30 x 60s Moon elongation 21 ° Air mass 3.47 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 28 13h06m36s Observation modification date 2014 Oct 28 13h07m29s