12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27383)
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 11 20h16 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6 " r (dist/Sun) 3.662 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.410 AU Right ascension 266.19633 ° Declination +54.80981 ° MPC report COD L27
CON J.-F. Soulier [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.25-m f/3.5 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK L27 2023.08.12 00:12:30
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0012P C2023 08 11.84425 17 44 47.12 +54 48 35.3 16.1 R L27
0012P C2023 08 11.88349 17 44 44.04 +54 48 21.5 16.2 R L27
0012P C2023 08 11.91979 17 44 41.18 +54 48 08.3 16.2 R L27
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 250 mm Instrument focale length 875 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.5 Filter None Camera ATIK 414 EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -5 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PARAMOUNT ME Autoguide No Exposure details 58 x 60s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban (04) Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares Astrometrica Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.49 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Aug 11 22h16m49s Observation modification date 2023 Aug 12 07h40m06s