12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27761)
Perihelion distance : 0.78 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 74 °
Orbital period : 71.8 years
Eccentricity : 0.95
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2023 Oct 21 20h38 UT by Patrick Martinez
(Copyright Patrick Martinez)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.18 Coma diameter 5 ' r (dist/Sun) 2.879 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.968 AU Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 820 mm Instrument focale length 3110 mm Filter Clear Camera Moravian C3 Sensor CMOS Sensor size 36x24 mm2 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 2x2 Exposure total time 330 s Picture exposure details 11x30s Observatory MPC code A05 Reference stars catalog (ast) Gaia DR1 Used softwares PRISM Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.5 "/pix Remarks or comments Observateurs : David Brégou, Sébastien Serpaud, Patrick Martinez Observation submission date 2023 Oct 22 17h10m20s