29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 6469)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 May 01 20h40 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.6 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.258 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.409 AU Right ascension 12 09 08.83 h m s Declination -11 11 54.2 ° ' " 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 2012.05.01
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0029P C2012 05 01.86099 12 09 08.83 -11 11 54.2 14.6 N C10
0029P C2012 05 01.87613 12 09 08.56 -11 11 51.5 14.6 N C10
0029P C2012 05 01.89200 12 09 08.19 -11 11 49.7 14.5 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4 Filter(s) IR pro 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 2400 s Exposure details 20 x 120s Seeing 4 Moon elongation 24 ° Air mass 2.01 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 GIMP Observation submission date 2012 May 02 00h22m07s Observation modification date 2012 May 02 00h23m27s