29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 11142)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Feb 21 05h58 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.6 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 4.8 " r (dist/Sun) 6.162 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.097 AU Right ascension 15 55 26.94 h m s Declination -29 52 09.1 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.02.21 11:04:30
AC2 thierrynoel1@laposte.net
NET UCAC-4
0029P KC2014 02 21.24862 15 55 26.94 -29 52 09.1 17.4 N W96
0029P KC2014 02 21.34704 15 55 28.60 -29 52 22.2 17.6 N W96
0029P KC2014 02 21.36887 15 55 28.94 -29 52 24.8 17.6 N W96
0029P KC2014 02 21.39070 15 55 29.30 -29 52 27.8 17.8 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Camera QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Paramount Autoguide No Exposure total time 4080 s Exposure details 68x1mn Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Image processing Astrometrica (-dark, /flat, add), Iris (levels, crop) Observation submission date 2014 Feb 21 11h12m29s Observation modification date 2014 Feb 21 13h42m49s