12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27535)
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 07 19h29 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.9 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 3.373 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.247 AU Right ascension 260.33317 ° Declination +51.01575 ° MPC report COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 56
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.09.08 05:25:01
NET APASS
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
0012P KC2023 09 07.81185 17 21 19.96 +51 00 56.7 16.0 V A77
0012P KC2023 09 07.82198 17 21 19.65 +51 00 50.5 15.9 V A77
0012P KC2023 09 07.83170 17 21 19.39 +51 00 44.5 15.9 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 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 37x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS
Image resize factor 0.5 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Sep 08 05h28m26s Observation modification date 2023 Sep 08 05h38m21s