29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 6465)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Apr 21 22h04 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) 6.259 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.335 AU Right ascension 12 12 17.77 h m s Declination -11 37 07.3 ° ' " 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 2012.04.21
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0029P C2012 04 21.91974 12 12 17.77 -11 37 07.3 16.2 N C10
0029P C2012 04 21.92896 12 12 17.56 -11 37 06.2 16.1 N C10
0029P C2012 04 21.95430 12 12 17.04 -11 37 01.6 16.4 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 1560 s Exposure details 13 X 120s Seeing 4 Moon elongation 148 ° Air mass 2.01 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 LOG FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Apr 22 01h28m21s Observation modification date 2012 Apr 22 14h13m16s