29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 12845)
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 29 23h53 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.5 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.099 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.933 AU Right ascension 241.90071 ° Declination -28.38053 ° 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 2014.10.29 and 30
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P KC2014 10 29.99495 16 07 36.17 -28 22 49.9 16.5 N W96
0029P KC2014 10 30.00947 16 07 36.83 -28 22 50.5 16.4 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 20 x 60s Moon elongation 47 ° Air mass 3.93 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 30 02h36m44s Observation modification date 2014 Oct 30 02h37m36s