12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27461)
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 22 20h21 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 3.545 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.341 AU Right ascension 263.09358 ° Declination +53.50694 ° MPC report COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 36
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.08.23 07:59:20
NET APASS
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
0012P KC2023 08 22.84769 17 32 22.46 +53 30 25.0 16.3 V A77
0012P KC2023 08 22.85295 17 32 22.14 +53 30 22.5 16.1 V A77
0012P KC2023 08 22.85781 17 32 21.87 +53 30 19.9 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 None Camera Atik460ex Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Exposure details 7x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Aug 23 15h48m40s Observation modification date 2023 Aug 23 15h49m39s