29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 6472)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 May 03 21h00 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.2 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.258 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.426 AU Right ascension 12 08 36.28 h m s Declination -11 07 04.1 ° ' " 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 2012.05.03
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0029P KC2012 05 03.87522 12 08 36.28 -11 07 04.1 15.2 N C10
0029P KC2012 05 03.89923 12 08 35.87 -11 07 01.4 15.2 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4 Filter(s) IR pro 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 3600 s Exposure details 30 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 06 ° Air mass 1.99 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 FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 May 04 12h02m33s Observation modification date 2012 May 04 21h03m26s