12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27504)
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 Sep 03 19h51 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 3.416 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.270 AU Right ascension 260.82354 ° Declination +51.6855 ° MPC report COD A77
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/2.8 reflector+CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.09.04 05:16:06
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0012P KC2023 09 03.82674 17 23 17.65 +51 41 07.8 15.8 R A77
0012P KC2023 09 03.83080 17 23 17.50 +51 41 06.0 15.8 R A77
0012P KC2023 09 03.83485 17 23 17.39 +51 41 03.3 15.8 R 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 -10 °C Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 15x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Image resize factor 0.5 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Sep 04 05h18m15s Observation modification date 2023 Sep 04 05h30m06s