12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 28030)
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 31 17h28 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.5 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " Coma diameter 11 ' r (dist/Sun) 2.012 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.271 AU Right ascension 293.98754 ° Declination +37.74442 ° MPC report COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 9
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
ACK MPCReport file updated 2024.01.01 05:42:10
NET UCAC4
0012P KC2023 12 31.72754 19 35 57.01 +37 44 39.9 13.5 V A77
0012P KC2023 12 31.73079 19 35 57.55 +37 44 39.9 13.5 V A77
0012P KC2023 12 31.73404 19 35 58.09 +37 44 39.9 13.5 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 21x30s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC4
Image resize factor 0.5 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2024 Jan 01 08h05m47s Observation modification date 2024 Jan 01 15h12m44s