12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27827)
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 08 18h11 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 14.5 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.668 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.823 AU Right ascension 267.84692 ° Declination +40.80903 ° MPC report COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 18
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.11.09 07:40:20
NET APASS
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
0012P KC2023 11 08.75767 17 51 23.26 +40 48 32.5 14.5 V A77
0012P KC2023 11 08.76253 17 51 23.63 +40 48 30.5 14.5 V A77
0012P KC2023 11 08.76739 17 51 24.01 +40 48 28.2 14.5 V 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 None Camera Atik460ex Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 18x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Nov 09 08h42m43s Observation modification date 2023 Nov 09 08h46m13s