29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 14184)
Perihelion distance : 5.8 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 9 °
Orbital period : 14.91 years
Eccentricity : 0.04
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Jul 23 23h34 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 12.3 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.024 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.199 AU Right ascension 259.98392 ° Declination -30.83458 ° 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 2015.07.23 and 24
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P C2015 07 23.98193 17 19 56.14 -30 50 04.5 12.3 N W96
0029P C2015 07 24.02042 17 19 55.40 -30 50 00.7 12.4 N W96
0029P C2015 07 24.07041 17 19 54.44 -30 49 55.6 12.3 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 -35 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 48 x 120s Moon elongation 54 ° Air mass 1.16 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Jul 24 12h43m31s Observation modification date 2015 Jul 24 12h44m45s