29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 5998)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Mar 16 23h58 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.5 m2 standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 9 " r (dist/Sun) 6.260 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.308 AU Right ascension 12 27 20.66 h m s Declination -13 03 21.0 ° ' " MPC report COD B83
CON Thierry NOEL [thierrynoel1@laposte.net]
OBS T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.20-m f/5.0 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.03.17 23:08:44
AC2 thierrynoel1@laposte.net
NET UCAC-3
0029P C2012 03 16.99888 12 27 20.66 -13 03 21.0 16.4 N B83
0029P C2012 03 17.03626 12 27 19.70 -13 03 16.4 16.7 N B83
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 1000 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.0 Camera SBIG ST7-XME Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Atlas-EQG Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 3600 s Exposure details 30x2mn Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 3 Observatory MPC code B83 Location Gieres 38610 France Reference stars catalog UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.85 "/pix Image processing Astrometrica (-dark, /flat, add) + Iris (gradient, levels, crop) Observation submission date 2012 Mar 17 23h16m44s Observation modification date 2012 Mar 17 23h49m21s