29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 14582)
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 Oct 11 01h32 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.000 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.321 AU Right ascension 263.09492 ° Declination -28.99939 ° 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 2015.10.11
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P C2015 10 11.06368 17 32 22.78 -28 59 57.8 16.9 N W96
0029P C2015 10 11.08411 17 32 23.40 -28 59 58.0 16.7 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 15 x 120s Moon elongation 88 ° Air mass 2.17 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 Oct 11 04h23m18s Observation modification date 2015 Oct 11 07h29m28s