29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 13689)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Apr 16 04h49 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.1 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 4.1 " r (dist/Sun) 6.052 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.550 AU Right ascension 17 58 03.56 h m s Declination -31 28 23.2 ° ' " 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 2015.04.16
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P C2015 04 16.20072 17 58 03.56 -31 28 23.2 16.2 N W96
0029P C2015 04 16.23601 17 58 03.51 -31 28 24.5 16.0 N W96
0029P C2015 04 16.27958 17 58 03.46 -31 28 26.3 16.1 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 3 x 120s Moon elongation 81 ° Air mass 1.73 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 Apr 17 06h41m29s Observation modification date 2015 Apr 17 06h43m38s