12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27696)
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 Oct 05 18h22 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 12 Magnitude standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 3.062 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.079 AU Right ascension 260.44838 ° Declination +46.023 ° MPC report COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 3
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.10.06 05:57:09
NET APASS
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0012P KC2023 10 05.76515 17 21 47.61 +46 01 22.8 12.3 V A77
0012P KC2023 10 05.76967 17 21 47.73 +46 01 19.8 11.9 V A77
0012P KC2023 10 05.77418 17 21 47.83 +46 01 16.9 11.8 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 -7 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 39x20s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Oct 06 05h58m36s Observation modification date 2023 Oct 06 07h03m25s