29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 15399)
Perihelion distance : 5.8 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 9 °
Orbital period : 14.91 years
Eccentricity : 0.04
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2016 Mar 30 08h25 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.6 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.5 " r (dist/Sun) 5.951 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.115 AU Right ascension 296.40463 ° Declination -25.62411 ° MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.355-m f/1.9 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2016.03.30
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P C2016 03 30.35066 19 45 37.11 -25 37 26.8 16.6 N W96
0029P C2016 03 30.37865 19 45 37.91 -25 37 24.7 16.5 N W96
Instrument type Schmidt-Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 355 mm Instrument focale length 674.5 mm Instrument focale/diameter 1.9 Filter None Camera QSI583 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Fork mount (homemade) Autoguide No Exposure details 3 x 180s Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.63 "/pix Image processing Image obtenue en Remote avec art.spaceobs.com Observation submission date 2016 Mar 30 21h42m25s Observation modification date 2016 Mar 30 21h48m05s