12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 28207)
Orbital period : 71.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2024 Feb 12 19h38 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 7.5 Aperture radius used for m1 5.0 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 11.4 Aperture radius used for m2 6 " Coma diameter 9.0 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 6 Tail length 0.38 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 5 ° Afrho 3910 cm Afrho error 90 cm r (dist/Sun) 1.447 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.816 AU Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson 407mm F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.29 Filter(s) None Camera SONY alpha7S Sensor DC Sensor size 36*24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240*2832 Sensor temperature 3 °C Binning 2x2 Mount dobson sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 191.6 s Exposure details 36x1.6+67x2s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5.5 Seeing 3 Moon phase 140 ° Moon elongation 60 ° Air mass 3 Location Boulonville Reference stars catalog APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning,flat,alignement,alignement comete,somme,retrait gradient Remarks or comments photométrie sur 105.6s des expositions en RAW - Afrho sur couche rouge Observation submission date 2024 Feb 14 18h07m57s Observation modification date 2024 Feb 19 17h44m14s