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12P/Pons-Brooks

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 08 18h30 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Magnitude (MPC m2)14.5
Magnitude standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m25.8 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.303 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.529 AU
Right ascension280.27933 °
Declination+38.20797 °
MPC report
COD A77
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/2.8 reflector+CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.12.09 08:24:50
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0012P        KC2023 12 08.77110 18 41 07.04 +38 12 28.7          14.5 V      A77
0012P        KC2023 12 08.77758 18 41 07.77 +38 12 27.8          14.6 V      A77
0012P        KC2023 12 08.78366 18 41 08.50 +38 12 25.5          14.3 V      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig2
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1120 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.8
FilterNone
CameraAtik460ex
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure details8x60s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Image resize factor0.5
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.83 "/pix
Observation submission date2023 Dec 09 09h29m39s
Observation modification date2023 Dec 09 09h30m41s

(Record n° 27936)

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