12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27297)
Orbital period : 71.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2023 Jul 22 02h27 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 11.8 Aperture radius used for m1 0.2 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.2 Aperture radius used for m2 3 " Coma diameter 0.40 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 8 Afrho 27300 cm Afrho error 1500 cm r (dist/Sun) 3.870 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.554 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 10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount dobson sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 34 s Exposure details 15x1.6+10x1.0s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5.5 Seeing 4 Moon phase 160 ° Moon elongation 180 ° Air mass 1.3 Location Boulonville Reference stars catalog APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1 "/pix Image processing flat, alignement, somme, retrait gradient + crop 20x20' Remarks or comments Afrho couche R image RAW de 26s prise à la suite (mR=11.9, mV=11.7) Observation submission date 2023 Jul 24 10h28m07s