12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27150)
Perihelion distance : 0.78 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 74 °
Orbital period : 71.8 years
Eccentricity : 0.95
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2023 Jun 12 00h59 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.4 Magnitude standard deviation 0.3 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 4.271 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.959 AU Right ascension 288.75242 ° Declination +51.64006 ° MPC report COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 15
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.06.12 05:21:20
NET UCAC4
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
0012P KC2023 06 12.04107 19 15 00.58 +51 38 24.2 17.0 V A77
0012P KC2023 06 12.04593 19 15 00.28 +51 38 27.5 17.5 V A77
0012P KC2023 06 12.05079 19 14 59.97 +51 38 30.7 17.6 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 -13 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Picture exposure details 18x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC4
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Jun 12 03h22m41s Observation modification date 2023 Jun 12 03h29m33s