12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 28079)
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 18 17h24 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 10.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.5 " r (dist/Sun) 1.778 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.066 AU Right ascension 308.012 ° Declination +38.05744 ° MPC report COD C10
CON J.-F. Soulier [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.30-m f/3.8 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK C10 2024.01.18 19:21:19
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0012P C2024 01 18.72525 20 32 02.88 +38 03 26.8 10.8 R C10
0012P C2024 01 18.74195 20 32 06.41 +38 03 28.5 10.8 R C10
0012P C2024 01 18.75908 20 32 09.95 +38 03 28.9 10.9 R C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1140 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.8 Filter None Camera ST8 XME Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60a Axis Instruments Autoguide No Exposure details 5 x 30s Observatory MPC code C10 Location Seine et Marne (77) Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares Astrometrica Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.62 "/pix Observation submission date 2024 Jan 18 19h23m07s Observation modification date 2024 Jan 18 20h24m24s