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29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann

Perihelion distance : 5.8 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 9 °
Orbital period : 14.91 years
Eccentricity : 0.04

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2026 Mar 20 23h14 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Magnitude (MPC m2)14.5
Magnitude standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m25.6 "
Coma diameter5.7 '
r (dist/Sun) 6.312 AU
d (dist/Earth) 5.332 AU
Right ascension168.00275 °
Declination-2.48272 °
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 obs2026-03-20 (L_84x30s_bin2) file updated 2026.03.21 10:21:33
NET ATLAS2
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr,pat.ditz@gmx.fr
0029P        KC2026 03 20.96837 11 12 00.66 -02 28 57.8          14.5 V      K97
0029P        KC2026 03 20.98134 11 12 00.33 -02 28 56.0          14.5 V      K97
0029P        KC2026 03 20.99329 11 12 00.02 -02 28 54.3          14.6 V      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT540
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)540 mm
Instrument focale length2025 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.75
FilterL
CameraAtik 460EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size10x12.5 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300
Exposure total time2490 s
Exposure details83x30s
Air mass1.6
Observatory MPC codeK97
LocationFreconrupt
Reference stars catalog (ast)ATLAS2
Used softwaresTycho Tracker
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.93 "/pix
Image processingPrism11 & Gimp
Observation submission date2026 Mar 21 10h55m04s
Observation modification date2026 Mar 21 10h59m25s

(Record n° 31168)

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