29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 4978)
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 deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 6.262 AU d (dist/Earth) 7.136 AU Right ascension 12 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 type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 254 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.6 Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9 x 4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765 x 510 Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PERL-VIXEN Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 600 s Exposure details 5 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 10 ° Air mass 9.71 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.04 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DDP GIMP Observation submission date 2011 Oct 24 09h53m41s Observation modification date 2011 Oct 27 21h55m10s