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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 Apr 21 04h55 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Magnitude (MPC m2)14.2
Magnitude standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius for m25.5 "
r (dist/Sun) 6.314 AU
d (dist/Earth) 5.551 AU
Right ascension165.3855 °
Declination-1.36767 °
MPC report
COD W96
CON P.Ditz
OBS P. Ditz
MEA P. Ditz
TEL 0.43-m f/6.8 reflector + CMO
NUM 3
ACK MPCReport CodW96-PDI #0029P obs2026-04-21 (L_41x60s_bin3 file updated 2026.04.21 08:08:30
NET ATLAS2
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
0029P        KB2026 04 21.20455 11 01 32.52 -01 22 03.6          14.2 V      W96
0029P        KB2026 04 21.21732 11 01 32.36 -01 22 02.3          14.2 V      W96
0029P        KB2026 04 21.22900 11 01 32.19 -01 22 01.0          14.2 V      W96
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentPlaneWave CDK17
Instrument typeCassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)430 mm
Instrument focale length2924 mm
Instrument focale/diameter6.8
FilterL
CameraQHY 268M
SensorCMOS
Sensor size23.5x15.7 mm2
Sensor pixels number6252x4176
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning3x3
MountAstelco NTM500
Exposure total time2460 s
Exposure details41x60s
Air mass1.8
Observatory MPC codeW96
LocationSpaceObs Chili Aitp
Reference stars catalog (ast)ATLAS2
Used softwaresTycho Tracker
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.79 "/pix
Image processingPrism11 & Gimp
Observation submission date2026 Apr 21 18h51m56s
Observation modification date2026 Apr 21 19h21m48s

(Record n° 31366)

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