29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 10970)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Jan 12 07h41 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.4 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.171 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.705 AU Right ascension 15 36 29.54 h m s Declination -28 07 55.5 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F Soulier
MEA J.-F Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.01.12
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P KC2014 01 12.32004 15 36 29.54 -28 07 55.5 17.4 N W96
0029P KC2014 01 12.34705 15 36 30.61 -28 08 00.3 17.5 N W96
0029P KC2014 01 12.36601 15 36 31.33 -28 08 03.7 17.4 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Camera QHY 9 Sensor CCD Sensor pixels number 3326 x 2504 Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 40 x 120s Moon elongation 164 ° Air mass 2.79 Observatory MPC code W96 Location Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2014 Jan 12 10h39m24s Observation modification date 2014 Jan 12 10h41m23s