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12P/Pons-Brooks

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 Mar 07 18h38 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Magnitude (MPC m2)9.7
Magnitude standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m25.8 "
Coma diameter16 '
Tail length0.9 °
Tail position angle (PA)17 °
r (dist/Sun) 1.135 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.662 AU
Right ascension3.24796 °
Declination+33.96589 °
MPC report
COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 48
ACK MPCReport file updated 2024.03.08 07:36:28
NET UCAC4
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
0012P        KC2024 03 07.77661 00 12 59.51 +33 57 57.2           9.7 V      A77
0012P        KC2024 03 07.77889 00 13 00.20 +33 57 54.8           9.7 V      A77
0012P        KC2024 03 07.78116 00 13 00.90 +33 57 52.4           9.6 V      A77
0012P        KC2024 03 07.78524 00 13 02.15 +33 57 47.8           9.6 V      A77
0012P        KC2024 03 07.78759 00 13 02.86 +33 57 45.2           9.7 V      A77
0012P        KC2024 03 07.78989 00 13 03.56 +33 57 42.9           9.7 V      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig3
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1120 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.8
FilterNone
CameraQHY600
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning2x2
Exposure details13x5s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC4
Image resize factor0.41
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.35 "/pix
Observation submission date2024 Mar 08 08h39m08s
Observation modification date2024 Mar 09 07h17m15s

(Record n° 28275)

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