29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 5987)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Mar 16 01h56 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.3 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.260 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.308 AU Right ascension 12 27 44.07 h m s Declination -13 04 58.3 ° ' " 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 2012.03.16
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0029P C2012 03 16.08032 12 27 44.07 -13 04 58.3 16.3 N C10
0029P C2012 03 16.09116 12 27 43.79 -13 04 57.1 16.3 N C10
0029P C2012 03 16.10509 12 27 43.43 -13 04 55.4 16.3 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 No Exposure total time 1440 s Exposure details 12 x 120s Seeing 2 Moon elongation 87 ° Air mass 2.11 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 16 05h56m12s Observation modification date 2012 Mar 18 17h28m24s