29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 13690)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Apr 17 04h03 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.5 m2 standard deviation 0.3 Aperture radius used for m2 2.7 " r (dist/Sun) 6.052 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.535 AU Right ascension 17 58 01.99 h m s Declination -31 29 09.3 ° ' " 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 2015.04.17 05:47:14
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P KC2015 04 17.16846 17 58 01.99 -31 29 09.3 17.7 N W96
0029P KC2015 04 17.20261 17 58 01.90 -31 29 10.8 17.6 N W96
0029P KC2015 04 17.23633 17 58 01.86 -31 29 12.8 17.1 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 15 x 120s Moon elongation 94 ° Air mass 2.29 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 07h59m58s Observation modification date 2015 Apr 17 08h06m09s