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29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann

Orbital period : 14.85 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Aug 29 23h37 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)12.4
Aperture radius used for m10.48 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)13.5
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter0.95 '
r (dist/Sun) 5.823 AU
d (dist/Earth) 4.858 AU
Right ascension21 14 27.11 h m s
Declination-14 25 31.0 ° ' "
MPC report
COD K97
CON P. Ditz [patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr]
OBS P. Ditz
MEA P. Ditz
TEL 0.20-m f/7.4 reflector + CCD
ACK Report 29P 2017/08/30
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0029P         C2017 08 29.98414 21 14 27.11 -14 25 31.0          13.5 N      K97
0029P         C2017 08 30.00601 21 14 26.54 -14 25 32.5          13.4 N      K97
0029P         C2017 08 30.02497 21 14 26.05 -14 25 34.0          13.5 N      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT200 F/D 7.4
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length1480 mm
Instrument focale/diameter7.4
Filter(s)L
CameraATIK 460 EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size12.5x10.0 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-9.4 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300
Exposure total time2760 s
Exposure details23x120s
Moon phase79 °
Moon elongation63 °
Air mass2.45
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresPRISM
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2017 Sep 01 08h47m10s
Observation modification date2017 Sep 01 08h52m58s

(Record n° 18173)

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