29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 15580)
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 Jun 08 03h36 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 14.5 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.3 " r (dist/Sun) 5.931 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.097 AU Right ascension 297.84408 ° Declination -25.41564 ° MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.35-m f/6.8 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2016.06.08
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P C2016 06 08.15000 19 51 22.58 -25 24 56.3 14.7 N W96
0029P C2016 06 08.17829 19 51 22.06 -25 24 58.3 14.4 N W96
0029P C2016 06 08.20427 19 51 21.55 -25 24 59.2 14.5 N W96
Instrument type Schmidt-Cassegrain Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 350 mm Instrument focale length 2380 mm Instrument focale/diameter 6.8 Filter None Camera ST-8300 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 2x2 Autoguide Yes Exposure details 2 x 120s Moon elongation 171 ° Air mass 1.56 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro d'Atacama Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.9 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Jun 08 07h19m00s Observation modification date 2016 Jun 09 12h35m29s