12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27777)
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 28 18h30 UT by Joel NicolasMagnitude (MPC m2) 15.1 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.6 " Afrho 561 cm Afrho error 12 cm r (dist/Sun) 2.797 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.915 AU Right ascension 264.67117 ° Declination +42.28261 ° MPC report COD A77
CON J. NICOLAS [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J. Nicolas
MEA J. Nicolas
TEL 0.41-m f/3.3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.10.29 11:05:08
AC2 nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0012P KC2023 10 28.77054 17 38 41.08 +42 16 57.4 15.1 R A77
0012P KC2023 10 28.77833 17 38 41.57 +42 16 53.1 15.1 R A77
0012P KC2023 10 28.78501 17 38 41.93 +42 16 49.8 15.1 R A77
0012P KC2023 10 28.79058 17 38 42.30 +42 16 46.9 15.0 R A77
0012P KC2023 10 28.79726 17 38 42.69 +42 16 42.9 15.0 R A77
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 410 mm Instrument focale length 1353 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.3 Filter R Bessel Camera ST8XME Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Observatory MPC code A77 Location 04 Dauban Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares Astrometrica Observation submission date 2023 Oct 29 10h06m44s Observation modification date 2023 Oct 29 14h49m50s