12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27365)
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 09 21h54 UT by Jean-Francois SoulierMagnitude (MPC m2) 16.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.5 " r (dist/Sun) 3.683 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.423 AU Right ascension 266.83154 ° Declination +54.99047 ° MPC report COD C10
CON J.-F. Soulier [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.30-m f/3.8 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK C10 2023.08.10 21:20:45
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0012P C2023 08 09.91232 17 47 19.57 +54 59 25.7 16.3 R C10
0012P C2023 08 09.92237 17 47 18.73 +54 59 23.0 16.1 R C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1140 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.8 Filter None Camera ST8 XME Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60a Axis Instruments Autoguide No Exposure details 14 x 60s Observatory MPC code C10 Location Seine et Marne (77) Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares Astrometrica Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.62 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Aug 10 19h26m15s Observation modification date 2023 Aug 10 20h00m46s