12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27580)
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 13 21h18 UT by Joel NicolasMagnitude (MPC m2) 15.9 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.6 " Afrho 340 cm Afrho error 5 cm r (dist/Sun) 3.307 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.213 AU Right ascension 259.83846 ° Declination +49.95478 ° MPC report COD A77
CON J. NICOLAS [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J. Nicolas
MEA J. Nicolas
TEL 0.41-m f/3.3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.09.14 11:03:26
AC2 nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0012P KC2023 09 13.88737 17 19 21.23 +49 57 17.2 15.7 R A77
0012P KC2023 09 13.89517 17 19 21.12 +49 57 12.2 16.0 R A77
0012P KC2023 09 13.90408 17 19 20.97 +49 57 06.4 16.0 R A77
0012P KC2023 09 13.91188 17 19 20.89 +49 57 01.4 16.0 R A77
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 410 mm Instrument focale length 1353 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.3 Filter R Bessel Camera ST8XME Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Observatory MPC code A77 Location 04 Dauban Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares Astrometrica Observation submission date 2023 Sep 14 09h07m00s Observation modification date 2023 Sep 14 16h14m49s