12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 28329)
Orbital period : 71.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2024 Mar 22 18h43 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 10 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.6 " Coma diameter 7.3 ' r (dist/Sun) 0.962 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.620 AU Right ascension 01 27 17.10 h m s Declination +28 01 34.1 ° ' " MPC report COD K97
CON P.Ditz [patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr]
OBS P.Ditz
MEA P.Ditz
TEL 0.54-m f/3.75 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2024.03.22 23:48:08
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET PPMXL
0012P C2024 03 22.78004 01 27 17.10 +28 01 34.1 10.0 V K97
0012P C2024 03 22.78017 01 27 17.07 +28 01 33.8 10.1 V K97
0012P C2024 03 22.78167 01 27 17.72 +28 01 31.6 9.9 V K97
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument T540 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 540 mm Instrument focale length 2025 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.75 Filter(s) L Camera Atik 460EX Sensor CCD Sensor size 10x12.5 mm2 Sensor pixels number 2749x2199 Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 2x2 Mount VMA300 Exposure total time 90 s Exposure details 18x5 Moon phase 11 ° Moon elongation 121 ° Air mass 2.6 Observatory MPC code K97 Location Freconrupt Reference stars catalog PPMXL
Used softwares Astrometrica Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.92 "/pix Image processing Prism11 & Gimp Remarks or comments Comète très basse Observation submission date 2024 Mar 23 11h36m52s Observation modification date 2024 Mar 23 11h47m22s