29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 5994)
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 deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.260 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.304 AU Right ascension 12 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 type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4 Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9 x 4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765 x 510 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60a Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 600 s Exposure details 5 X 120s Seeing 2 Moon elongation 101 ° Air mass 2.13 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8, DDP, GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Mar 17 02h58m15s Observation modification date 2012 Mar 18 17h38m26s