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12P/Pons-Brooks

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 09 19h54 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Magnitude (MPC m2)16.5
Magnitude standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m25.6 "
r (dist/Sun) 3.351 AU
d (dist/Earth) 3.236 AU
Right ascension260.13517 °
Declination+50.66794 °
MPC report
COD K97
CON P.Ditz [patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr]
OBS P.Ditz
MEA P.Ditz
TEL 0.54-m f/3.75 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.09.10 15:45:27
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET PPMXL
0012P         C2023 09 09.82930 17 20 32.44 +50 40 04.6          16.5 V      K97
0012P         C2023 09 09.83635 17 20 32.21 +50 40 00.3          16.5 V      K97
0012P         C2023 09 09.84646 17 20 32.00 +50 39 53.8          16.6 V      K97
0012P         C2023 09 09.85176 17 20 31.87 +50 39 50.4          16.5 V      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT540
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)540 mm
Instrument focale length2025 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.75
FilterL
CameraAtik 460EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size10x12.5 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-9 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300
Exposure total time1500 s
Exposure details25x60s
Air mass1.1
Observatory MPC codeK97
LocationFreconrupt
Reference stars catalog (ast)PPMXL
Used softwaresAstrometrica
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.92 "/pix
Image processingPrism11 & Gimp
Observation submission date2023 Sep 10 18h21m39s
Observation modification date2023 Sep 10 18h32m11s

(Record n° 27566)

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