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12P/Pons-Brooks

Orbital period : 71.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2023 Nov 26 17h10 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)14.5
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m25.8 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.451 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.654 AU
Right ascension18 18 25.79 h m s
Declination+38 58 58.5 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/2.8 reflector+CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.11.26 19:44:40
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0012P        KC2023 11 26.71557 18 18 25.79 +38 58 58.5          14.5 R      A77
0012P        KC2023 11 26.72125 18 18 26.36 +38 58 57.5          14.5 R      A77
0012P        KC2023 11 26.72692 18 18 26.97 +38 58 55.1          14.4 R      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig2
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1120 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.8
Filter(s)R Bessel
CameraAtik460ex
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure details21x60s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.83 "/pix
Observation submission date2023 Nov 26 20h50m03s
Observation modification date2023 Nov 26 20h59m07s

(Record n° 27896)

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