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12P/Pons-Brooks

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 21 18h51 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Magnitude (MPC m2)15.9
Magnitude standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius for m25.6 "
Coma diameter6.5 '
r (dist/Sun) 2.879 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.968 AU
Right ascension263.03204 °
Declination+43.33667 °
MPC report
COD K97
CON P.Ditz [patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr]
OBS P.Ditz
MEA P.Ditz
TEL 0.54-m f/3.75 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.10.22 10:40:58
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET PPMXL
0012P         C2023 10 21.78526 17 32 07.69 +43 20 12.0          15.9 V      K97
0012P         C2023 10 21.78912 17 32 07.95 +43 20 09.8          15.9 V      K97
0012P         C2023 10 21.79601 17 32 08.29 +43 20 05.9          15.9 V      K97
0012P         C2023 10 21.80035 17 32 08.50 +43 20 03.5          15.9 V      K97
0012P         C2023 10 21.80565 17 32 08.75 +43 20 00.0          15.9 V      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT540
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)540 mm
Instrument focale length2025 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.75
FilterL
CameraAtik 460EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size10x12.5 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300
Exposure total time1380 s
Exposure details46x30s
Moon phase97 °
Moon elongation76 °
Air mass1.3
Observatory MPC codeK97
LocationFreconrupt
Reference stars catalog (ast)PPMXL
Used softwaresAstrometrica
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.92 "/pix
Image processingPrism11 & Gimp
Observation submission date2023 Oct 22 18h15m03s
Observation modification date2023 Oct 22 18h21m44s

(Record n° 27762)

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