12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27792)
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 Nov 02 18h20 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 11.7 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.739 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.874 AU Right ascension 266.02475 ° Declination +41.58303 ° 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 2023.11.02 19:32:18
NET APASS
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
0012P KC2023 11 02.76422 17 44 05.94 +41 34 58.9 11.6 R A77
0012P KC2023 11 02.76608 17 44 06.05 +41 34 58.2 11.7 R A77
0012P KC2023 11 02.76793 17 44 06.18 +41 34 57.2 11.7 R 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 R Bessel Camera Atik460ex Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -18 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 11x30s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Nov 02 20h34m00s Observation modification date 2023 Nov 02 20h50m57s