12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 28058)
Perihelion distance : 0.78 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 74 °
Orbital period : 71.7 years
Eccentricity : 0.95
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2024 Jan 14 17h22 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 12.9 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 1.830 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.111 AU Right ascension 304.60517 ° Declination +37.96419 ° MPC report COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 3
ACK MPCReport file updated 2024.01.14 20:20:26
NET UCAC4
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
0012P KC2024 01 14.72362 20 18 25.24 +37 57 51.1 12.9 V A77
0012P KC2024 01 14.72836 20 18 26.19 +37 57 51.2 12.9 V A77
0012P KC2024 01 14.73326 20 18 27.17 +37 57 51.5 12.8 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 10x30s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC4
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2024 Jan 14 22h42m52s Observation modification date 2024 Jan 14 22h44m09s