12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 28260)
Orbital period : 71.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2024 Mar 03 19h57 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 6.1 Aperture radius used for m1 5.0 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 10.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6 " Coma diameter 9.3 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 6 Tail length 0.7 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 12 ° Afrho 11200 cm Afrho error 300 cm r (dist/Sun) 1.186 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.680 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 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 139.5 s Exposure details 23x1.3+44x1.0+41x1.6s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5.5 Seeing 2 Moon phase 110 ° Moon elongation 180 ° Air mass 3.2 Location Boulonville Reference stars catalog APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing 4séries: binning, flat, alignement, somme, alignement cométaire, somme retrait gradient (passages nuageux) Remarks or comments Afrho sur couche R 32s de pose en raw à 19h54.7, et magnitude R+V+B sur même sous groupe de poses Observation submission date 2024 Mar 05 23h51m56s Observation modification date 2024 Mar 06 11h52m14s