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29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann

Orbital period : 14.85 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2025 Mar 17 20h25 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)13.3
Aperture radius used for m10.75 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)15.7
m2 standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius used for m25.6 "
Coma diameter11.5 '
r (dist/Sun) 6.267 AU
d (dist/Earth) 5.402 AU
Right ascension09 41 48.06 h m s
Declination+10 28 37.7 ° ' "
MPC report
COD K97
CON P.Ditz
OBS P.Ditz
MEA P.Ditz
TEL 0.54-m f/3.75 reflector + CCD
NUM 3
ACK MPCReport CodK97-PDI #0029P obs2025-03-17 (L_40x20s_bin2) file updated 2025.03.18 09:54:55
NET ATLAS2
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr,pat.ditz@gmx.fr
0029P        KC2025 03 17.85041 09 41 48.06 +10 28 37.7          15.7 V      K97
0029P        KC2025 03 17.85822 09 41 47.91 +10 28 38.2          15.7 V      K97
0029P        KC2025 03 17.86690 09 41 47.72 +10 28 39.0          15.7 V      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT540
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)540 mm
Instrument focale length2025 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.75
Filter(s)L
CameraAtik 460EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size10x12.5 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300
Exposure total time780 s
Exposure details39x20s
Moon phase20 °
Moon elongation71 °
Air mass1.3
Observatory MPC codeK97
LocationFreconrupt
Reference stars catalogATLAS2
Used softwaresTycho Tracker
Image resize factor0.8
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.93 "/pix
Image processingPrism11 & Gimp
Observation submission date2025 Mar 18 10h38m41s
Observation modification date2025 Mar 18 10h42m24s

(Record n° 29592)

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