29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 28206)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2024 Feb 12 21h13 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 12.5 Aperture radius used for m1 1.5 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.8 Aperture radius used for m2 6 " Coma diameter 3.0 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 3 r (dist/Sun) 6.177 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.248 AU Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson 407mm F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.29 Filter(s) None Camera SONY alpha7S Sensor DC Sensor size 36*24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240*2832 Sensor temperature 3 °C Binning 2x2 Mount dobson sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 63.2 s Exposure details 22x2+12x1.6s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5.5 Seeing 3 Moon phase 140 ° Moon elongation 180 ° Air mass 1.4 Location Boulonville Reference stars catalog APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning,flat,alignement,somme,retrait gradient Observation submission date 2024 Feb 14 17h40m23s