12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 27953)
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 15 17h16 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.216 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.453 AU Right ascension 284.00096 ° Declination +37.93239 ° MPC report COD A77
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/2.8 reflector+CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.12.16 06:18:48
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0012P KC2023 12 15.71917 18 56 00.23 +37 55 56.6 13.3 V A77
0012P KC2023 12 15.72611 18 56 01.13 +37 55 55.8 13.0 V A77
0012P KC2023 12 15.73306 18 56 02.08 +37 55 55.1 13.3 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 Binning 1x1 Exposure details 15x30s 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 16 07h48m34s Observation modification date 2023 Dec 16 07h52m16s