12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27928)
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 06 17h12 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 14.1 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.328 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.551 AU Right ascension 279.24417 ° Declination +38.31364 ° MPC report COD A77
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/2.8 reflector+CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.12.07 07:04:26
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0012P KC2023 12 06.71653 18 36 58.60 +38 18 49.1 14.2 V A77
0012P KC2023 12 06.72382 18 36 59.44 +38 18 47.5 14.1 V A77
0012P KC2023 12 06.73111 18 37 00.33 +38 18 46.4 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 27x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Dec 07 08h05m28s Observation modification date 2023 Dec 07 08h17m34s