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29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann

Orbital period : 14.85 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2012 Mar 17 00h52 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)16.2
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
r (dist/Sun) 6.260 AU
d (dist/Earth) 5.304 AU
Right ascension12 27 19.63 h m s
Declination-13 03 16.6 ° ' "
MPC report
COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.300-m f/4 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.03.17
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0029P         C2012 03 17.03603 12 27 19.63 -13 03 16.6          16.2 N      C10
0029P         C2012 03 17.03953 12 27 19.52 -13 03 15.6          16.1 N      C10
0029P         C2012 03 17.04623 12 27 19.42 -13 03 13.4          16.2 N      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountF60a
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time600 s
Exposure details5 X 120s
Seeing2
Moon elongation101 °
Air mass2.13
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.5 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8, DDP, GIMP
Observation submission date2012 Mar 17 02h58m15s
Observation modification date2012 Mar 18 17h38m26s

(Record n° 5994)

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