29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 13369)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Feb 04 08h05 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 14.9 Aperture radius used for m1 0.06 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.9 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " Coma diameter 0.002 ' Afrho 20441 cm Afrho error 321 cm r (dist/Sun) 6.072 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.638 AU Right ascension 17 30 37.98 h m s Declination -30 25 13.5 ° ' " 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 2015.02.04
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P C2015 02 04.33694 17 30 37.98 -30 25 13.5 14.0 N W96
0029P C2015 02 04.35997 17 30 38.97 -30 25 14.4 14.0 N W96
0029P C2015 02 04.38571 17 30 40.13 -30 25 15.8 13.8 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter(s) None Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 12 x 80s Moon elongation 124 ° Air mass 1.98 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Feb 04 13h43m15s Observation modification date 2015 Feb 04 13h46m39s