29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 12873)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Oct 31 23h47 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.099 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.948 AU Right ascension 16 09 15.58 h m s Declination -28 25 31.2 ° ' " 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 2014.11.31
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P KC2014 10 31.99064 16 09 15.58 -28 25 31.2 17.0 N W96
0029P KC2014 10 31.99980 16 09 16.04 -28 25 31.8 16.9 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter(s) None Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 15 x 60s Moon elongation 74 ° Air mass 3.80 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 Nov 01 11h38m25s Observation modification date 2014 Nov 01 11h39m14s