12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27858)
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 19 18h04 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.1 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.536 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.723 AU Right ascension 271.75413 ° Declination +39.59831 ° 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 2023.11.19 19:14:34
NET APASS
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0012P KC2023 11 19.75302 18 07 00.99 +39 35 53.9 13.1 V A77
0012P KC2023 11 19.76056 18 07 01.66 +39 35 50.7 13.1 V A77
0012P KC2023 11 19.76797 18 07 02.37 +39 35 48.6 13.0 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 -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 48x30s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Nov 19 20h15m50s Observation modification date 2023 Nov 19 20h33m41s