12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27017)
Perihelion distance : 0.78 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 74 °
Orbital period : 71.7 years
Eccentricity : 0.95
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2023 Apr 19 02h13 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.6 Magnitude standard deviation 0.5 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 4.782 AU d (dist/Earth) 4.765 AU Right ascension 293.90721 ° Declination +39.48794 ° MPC report COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 124
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.04.19 08:13:17
NET UCAC4
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
0012P KC2023 04 19.09211 19 35 37.73 +39 29 16.6 18.0 V A77
0012P KC2023 04 19.09697 19 35 37.81 +39 29 20.1 17.1 V A77
Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1120 mm Instrument focale/diameter 2.8 Filter None Camera Atik460ex Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 8x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC4
Image resize factor 2 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Apr 19 08h15m44s Observation modification date 2023 Apr 19 09h09m34s