12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27721)
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 09 18h18 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 14.5 Magnitude standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 3.017 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.053 AU Right ascension 260.93308 ° Declination +45.32525 ° 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 2023.10.10 05:10:01
NET APASS
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
0012P KC2023 10 09.76217 17 23 43.94 +45 19 30.9 14.7 V A77
0012P KC2023 10 09.76622 17 23 44.06 +45 19 28.2 14.4 V A77
0012P KC2023 10 09.76987 17 23 44.19 +45 19 26.0 14.3 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 Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 14x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Oct 10 05h11m18s Observation modification date 2023 Oct 10 05h11m49s