  We have applied the Lindstedt-Poincar\'e method to study the limit cycle of
the van der Pol oscillator, obtaining the numerical coefficients of the series
for the period and for the amplitude to order $859$. Hermite-Pad\'e
approximants have been used to extract the location of the branch cut of the
series with unprecendented accuracy ($100$ digits). Both series have then been
resummed using an approach based on Pad\'e approximants, where the exact
asymptotic behaviors of the period and the amplitude are taken into account.
Our results improve drastically all previous results obtained on this subject.
