29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 6253)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Mar 21 01h04 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.3 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.260 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.288 AU Right ascension 12 25 35.54 h m s Declination -12 55 39.5 ° ' " MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.300-m f/4 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.03.21
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0029P C2012 03 21.04429 12 25 35.54 -12 55 39.5 16.4 N C10
0029P C2012 03 21.05593 12 25 35.24 -12 55 38.0 16.3 N C10
0029P C2012 03 21.06653 12 25 34.92 -12 55 36.6 16.3 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4 Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9 x 4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765 x 510 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60a Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1800 s Exposure details 15 X 120s Seeing 4 Moon elongation 151 ° Air mass 2.16 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Mar 21 06h15m04s Observation modification date 2012 Mar 21 17h41m30s