12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27710)
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 07 18h41 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.5 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 3.039 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.066 AU Right ascension 260.67879 ° Declination +45.66978 ° MPC report COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 6
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.10.08 05:26:53
NET APASS
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
0012P KC2023 10 07.77823 17 22 42.91 +45 40 11.2 13.5 V A77
0012P KC2023 10 07.78102 17 22 42.99 +45 40 09.4 13.5 V A77
0012P KC2023 10 07.78380 17 22 43.07 +45 40 07.6 13.5 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 -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 24x20s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Oct 08 05h28m35s Observation modification date 2023 Oct 08 05h30m41s