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12P/Pons-Brooks

Orbital period : 71.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2023 Aug 14 21h38 UT by Joel Nicolas


(Copyright Joel Nicolas)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)16
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.0 "
r (dist/Sun) 3.630 AU
d (dist/Earth) 3.390 AU
Right ascension17 40 58.10 h m s
Declination+54 29 32.1 ° ' "
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 2023.08.15 11:24:27
AC2 nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0012P        KC2023 08 14.90132 17 40 58.10 +54 29 32.1          15.9 R      A77
0012P        KC2023 08 14.90690 17 40 57.82 +54 29 29.8          15.9 R      A77
0012P        KC2023 08 14.91301 17 40 57.41 +54 29 26.8          16.1 R      A77
0012P        KC2023 08 14.91910 17 40 57.01 +54 29 24.5          16.2 R      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig1
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)410 mm
Instrument focale length1353 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.3
Filter(s)None
CameraST8XME
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning1x1
Exposure details6*60s
Air mass1.07
Observatory MPC codeA77
Location04 Dauban
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresAstrometrica
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.4 "/pix
Observation submission date2023 Aug 15 09h27m35s
Observation modification date2023 Aug 15 09h46m31s

(Record n° 27415)

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