  We carried out photometric and spectroscopic observations of comet
29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at the 6-m BTA telescope (SAO RAS, Russia) and the
1.6-m telescope of the National Laboratory for Astro-physics (LNA, Brazil) on
February 20, 2012, and on May 31, 2011, respectively. The spectra revealed the
presence of CO+ and N2+ emissions in the cometary coma at a distance of 5.25 AU
from the Sun. The ratio [N2+]/[CO+] within the projected slit is 0.013. The
images obtained through BVR filters showed a bright, dust coma, indicating a
high level of activity. We estimated a colour index and a colour excess for the
comet. The parameter Af\r{ho}, which is used as an indicator of a cometary
activity, was measured to be 2584 cm in the reference optical aperture of
\r{ho}=10^4 km. The dust production constituted 33 kg/s and 9.3*10^3 kg/s, it
was obtained using different methods. We also investigated the morphology of
the comet using image enhancement techniques and found two jets in the coma.
