29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 15404)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2016 Apr 04 08h25 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.6 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8.2 " r (dist/Sun) 5.949 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.036 AU Right ascension 19 47 49.79 h m s Declination -25 32 28.4 ° ' " 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 2016.04.04
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P C2016 04 04.35036 19 47 49.79 -25 32 28.4 16.6 N W96
0029P C2016 04 04.37831 19 47 50.48 -25 32 26.9 16.7 N W96
0029P C2016 04 04.40855 19 47 51.24 -25 32 25.7 16.5 N W96
Instrument type Schmidt-Cassegrain Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 355 mm Instrument focale length 674.5 mm Instrument focale/diameter 1.9 Filter(s) None Camera QSI583 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Fork Mount Autoguide No Exposure details 3 x 180s Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro d'Atacama Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.65 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Apr 04 14h41m58s Observation modification date 2016 Apr 04 14h51m05s