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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 31 18h00 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Magnitude (MPC m2)12.7
Magnitude standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius for m25.8 "
Afrho7830 cm
Afrho error314 cm
Afrho URL for more infohttps://cara.uai.it/
r (dist/Sun) 2.762 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.891 AU
Right ascension265.46088 °
Declination+41.85939 °
MPC report
COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 8
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.10.31 19:51:01
NET APASS
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
0012P        KC2023 10 31.75030 17 41 50.61 +41 51 33.8          12.7 R      A77
0012P        KC2023 10 31.76165 17 41 51.35 +41 51 28.3          12.7 R      A77
0012P        KC2023 10 31.77299 17 41 52.09 +41 51 22.3          12.7 R      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig2
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1120 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.8
FilterR Bessel
CameraAtik460ex
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-18 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure details35x60s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalog (ast)APASS
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.83 "/pix
Remarks or commentsAfRho 10000km
Observation submission date2023 Oct 31 20h53m03s
Observation modification date2023 Nov 02 07h06m47s

(Record n° 27783)

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