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29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann

Orbital period : 14.85 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Oct 24 04h48 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)14.4
m2 standard deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 6.262 AU
d (dist/Earth) 7.136 AU
Right ascension12 05 42.06 h m s
Declination-07 16 08.9 ° ' "
MPC report
COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.255-m f/3.6 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.10.24
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0029P         C2011 10 24.20023 12 05 42.06 -07 16 08.9          14.6 N      C10
0029P         C2011 10 24.21062 12 05 42.58 -07 16 12.3          14.2 N      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)254 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.6
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-25 °C
Binning1x1
MountPERL-VIXEN
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time600 s
Exposure details5 X 120s
Seeing3
Moon elongation10 °
Air mass9.71
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP GIMP
Observation submission date2011 Oct 24 09h53m41s
Observation modification date2011 Oct 27 21h55m10s

(Record n° 4978)

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