29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 16839)
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 Dec 22 00h23 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.7 Magnitude standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius for m2 4.7 " r (dist/Sun) 5.879 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.731 AU Right ascension 300.46554 ° Declination -21.93736 ° MPC report COD W96
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-B. de Vanssay, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/5.4 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2016.12.22
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0029P KC2016 12 22.01596 20 01 51.73 -21 56 14.5 17.5 N W96
0029P KC2016 12 22.02202 20 01 51.83 -21 56 13.1 17.9 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 2160 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.4 Filter None Camera QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 3x3 Mount VMA 200 Autoguide No Exposure details 16 x 60s Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro d'Atacama Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.55 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Dec 22 01h52m51s Observation modification date 2016 Dec 24 02h15m12s