12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27919)
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 Dec 05 17h22 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 14 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.340 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.561 AU Right ascension 278.75396 ° Declination +38.36872 ° MPC report COD A77
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TEL 0.4-m f/2.8 reflector+CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.12.05 19:52:18
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NET UCAC-4
0012P KC2023 12 05.72333 18 35 00.95 +38 22 07.4 14.1 V A77
0012P KC2023 12 05.72738 18 35 01.43 +38 22 06.5 14.0 V A77
0012P KC2023 12 05.73144 18 35 01.90 +38 22 05.4 14.0 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 -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 20x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Image resize factor 0.5 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Dec 05 20h53m26s Observation modification date 2023 Dec 05 20h58m28s