12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 28390)
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 Apr 14 19h20 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 9.3 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 0.792 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.609 AU Right ascension 46.27467 ° Declination +14.22969 ° MPC report COD A77
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TEL 0.4-m f/2.8 reflector+CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2024.04.15 05:50:26
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NET UCAC-4
0012P C2024 04 14.80543 03 05 05.92 +14 13 46.9 9.3 V A77
0012P C2024 04 14.80715 03 05 06.46 +14 13 41.6 9.2 V A77
0012P C2024 04 14.81000 03 05 07.47 +14 13 39.1 9.4 V A77
Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1120 mm Instrument focale/diameter 2.8 Filter None Camera Atik460ex Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 3x5s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Image resize factor 0.5 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2024 Apr 15 07h52m07s Observation modification date 2024 Apr 15 08h01m56s