12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 28317)
Perihelion distance : 0.78 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 74 °
Orbital period : 71.8 years
Eccentricity : 0.95
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2024 Mar 19 18h55 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 9.1 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 0.994 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.626 AU Right ascension 18.23913 ° Declination +29.43194 ° MPC report COD A77
CON F. Kugel
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.40-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
NUM 27
ACK MPCReport file updated 2024.03.20 06:41:58
NET UCAC4
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
0012P KC2024 03 19.78838 01 12 57.39 +29 25 55.0 9.1 V A77
0012P KC2024 03 19.79102 01 12 58.24 +29 25 53.8 9.1 V A77
0012P KC2024 03 19.79362 01 12 58.97 +29 25 48.9 9.2 V A77
Instrumental configuration Config3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1120 mm Instrument focale/diameter 2.8 Filter None Camera QHY600 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Picture exposure details 15x5s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC4
Image resize factor 0.5 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.36 "/pix Observation submission date 2024 Mar 20 07h43m52s Observation modification date 2024 Mar 20 07h48m25s