12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 28314)
Orbital period : 71.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2024 Mar 14 19h57 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 5.6 Aperture radius used for m1 5.0 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 9.2 Aperture radius used for m2 6 " Coma diameter 9.1 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 7 Tail length 0.5 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 20 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.051 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.637 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 9 °C Binning 2x2 Mount dobson sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 122.4 s Exposure details 84x1+24x1.6s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5.5 Seeing 2 Moon phase 150 ° Moon elongation 50 ° Air mass 4 Location Boulonville Reference stars catalog APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning, flat, alignement, alignement comète, somme, retrait gradient IRIS, retrait gradient astrosurface Remarks or comments Photométrie sur 29s RAW à 19h58.3 UT Observation submission date 2024 Mar 17 15h04m21s