29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 31168)
Orbital period : 14.91 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Mar 20 23h14 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.5 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.6 " Coma diameter 5.7 ' r (dist/Sun) 6.312 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.332 AU Right ascension 11 12 00.66 h m s Declination -02 28 57.8 ° ' " 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 configuration Config1 Instrument T540 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 540 mm Instrument focale length 2025 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.75 Filter(s) L Camera Atik 460EX Sensor CCD Sensor size 10x12.5 mm2 Sensor pixels number 2749x2199 Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 2x2 Mount VMA300 Exposure total time 2490 s Exposure details 83x30s Air mass 1.6 Observatory MPC code K97 Location Freconrupt Reference stars catalog ATLAS2
Used softwares Tycho Tracker Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.93 "/pix Image processing Prism11 & Gimp Observation submission date 2026 Mar 21 10h55m04s Observation modification date 2026 Mar 21 10h59m25s