29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 18461)
Perihelion distance : 5.8 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 9 °
Orbital period : 14.91 years
Eccentricity : 0.04
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Nov 05 17h26 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.4 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " Coma diameter 6 ' r (dist/Sun) 5.810 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.684 AU Right ascension 316.80642 ° Declination -14.36753 ° MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.11.05 19:43:39
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0029P KC2017 11 05.72624 21 07 13.54 -14 22 03.1 16.4 N A77
0029P KC2017 11 05.73515 21 07 13.64 -14 22 02.1 16.3 N A77
0029P KC2017 11 05.74406 21 07 13.81 -14 22 01.7 16.5 N A77
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter L Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 26x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Remarks or comments Bad seeing
Observation submission date 2017 Nov 05 19h45m30s Observation modification date 2017 Nov 05 19h50m42s