12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27352)
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 Aug 08 00h59 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 3.693 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.430 AU Right ascension 267.46958 ° Declination +55.15053 ° MPC report COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 11
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.08.08 14:58:12
NET APASS
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0012P KC2023 08 08.04152 17 49 52.70 +55 09 01.9 16.0 V A77
0012P KC2023 08 08.04881 17 49 52.09 +55 08 59.6 16.0 V A77
0012P KC2023 08 08.05570 17 49 51.51 +55 08 57.6 16.1 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 R Bessel Camera Atik460ex Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 9x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Aug 08 12h59m30s Observation modification date 2023 Aug 08 13h01m57s