29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 13824)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 May 08 08h03 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 12.3 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.046 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.264 AU Right ascension 17 54 32.43 h m s Declination -31 43 32.6 ° ' " 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 2015.05.08 21:58:57
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0029P C2015 05 08.33538 17 54 32.43 -31 43 32.6 12.2 N W96
0029P C2015 05 08.35270 17 54 32.09 -31 43 34.9 12.3 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 QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 4x4 Mount Paramount Autoguide No Exposure details 45x30s Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.38 "/pix Image processing Astrometrica (-offset, add), Iris (grad, levels, crop) Observation submission date 2015 May 08 22h01m01s Observation modification date 2015 May 08 23h01m32s