12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 28010)
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 26 17h15 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.5 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.076 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.329 AU Right ascension 290.63583 ° Declination +37.74203 ° MPC report COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 9
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.12.26 20:24:36
NET UCAC4
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
0012P KC2023 12 26.71876 19 22 32.60 +37 44 31.3 13.5 V A77
0012P KC2023 12 26.72200 19 22 33.09 +37 44 31.1 13.5 V A77
0012P KC2023 12 26.72524 19 22 33.60 +37 44 31.1 13.6 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 Exposure details 7x30s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC4
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Dec 26 21h26m05s Observation modification date 2023 Dec 26 21h28m34s