29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 6462)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Apr 16 22h49 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.5 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.259 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.308 AU Right ascension 12 14 07.50 h m s Declination -11 50 13.2 ° ' " 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 2012.04.16
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0029P C2012 04 16.95087 12 14 07.50 -11 50 13.2 16.5 N C10
0029P C2012 04 16.96162 12 14 07.28 -11 50 11.6 16.5 N C10
0029P C2012 04 16.97234 12 14 06.98 -11 50 09.9 16.5 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 Seeing 4 Moon elongation 151 ° Air mass 2.04 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DDP GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Apr 17 13h17m48s Observation modification date 2012 Apr 17 17h35m46s