Home

12P/Pons-Brooks

Orbital period : 71.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2023 Jul 31 02h06 UT by Joel Nicolas


(Copyright Joel Nicolas)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)12.2
Aperture radius used for m11.3 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)15.7
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.0 "
Coma diameter2.6 '
r (dist/Sun) 3.777 AU
d (dist/Earth) 3.485 AU
Right ascension18 01 36.82 h m s
Declination+55 39 00.5 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON J. NICOLAS [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J. Nicolas
MEA J. Nicolas
TEL 0.41-m f/3.3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2023.07.31 09:57:06
AC2 nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0012P        KC2023 07 31.08767 18 01 36.82 +55 39 00.5          15.7 R      A77
0012P        KC2023 07 31.09148 18 01 36.39 +55 38 59.9          15.7 R      A77
0012P        KC2023 07 31.09528 18 01 36.07 +55 38 57.8          15.6 R      A77
0012P        KC2023 07 31.09910 18 01 35.70 +55 38 57.5          15.6 R      A77
0012P        KC2023 07 31.10306 18 01 35.28 +55 38 56.4          15.7 R      A77
0012P        KC2023 07 31.10748 18 01 34.92 +55 38 57.8          15.8 R      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig1
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)410 mm
Instrument focale length1353 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.3
Filter(s)R Bessel
CameraST8XME
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-18 °C
Binning1x1
Exposure details10*60s
Air mass1.49
Observatory MPC codeA77
Location04 Dauban
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresAstrometrica
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.4 "/pix
Observation submission date2023 Jul 31 08h01m48s
Observation modification date2023 Aug 03 15h02m14s

(Record n° 27331)

Home