29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 31395)
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 23 20h51 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 6.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.314 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.573 AU Right ascension 165.24813 ° Declination -1.29408 ° 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 obs2026-04-23 (L_55x60s_bin2) file updated 2026.04.24 09:04:18
NET ATLAS2
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr,pat.ditz@gmx.fr
0029P KC2026 04 23.86847 11 00 59.55 -01 17 38.7 15.0 V K97
0029P KC2026 04 23.88390 11 00 59.37 -01 17 37.3 15.0 V K97
0029P KC2026 04 23.89819 11 00 59.19 -01 17 35.8 15.0 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 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 3300 s Exposure details 55x60 Moon phase 95 ° Moon elongation 48 ° Air mass 1.58 Observatory MPC code K97 Location Freconrupt Reference stars catalog (ast) ATLAS2
Used softwares Tycho Tracker Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.93 "/pix Image processing Prism11 & Gimp Observation submission date 2026 Apr 24 10h41m16s Observation modification date 2026 May 07 14h47m14s