12P/Pons-Brooks (Record n° 28676)
Orbital period : 71.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2024 Jul 29 23h45 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.2 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " Coma diameter 8.6 ' r (dist/Sun) 1.840 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.982 AU Right ascension 10 11 46.33 h m s Declination -44 53 55.4 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON P.Ditz
OBS P.Ditz
MEA P.Ditz
TEL 0.43-m f/6.8 reflector + CMO
NUM 3
ACK MPCReport CodW96-PDI #0012P obs2024-07-29 (L_42x30s_bin3) file updated 2024.07.30 05:58:33
NET ATLAS2
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr,pat.ditz@gmx.fr
0012P KB2024 07 29.98939 10 11 46.33 -44 53 55.4 14.3 V W96
0012P KB2024 07 29.99618 10 11 48.18 -44 53 59.4 14.1 V W96
0012P KB2024 07 30.00177 10 11 49.71 -44 54 03.0 14.1 V W96
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument PlaneWave CDK17 Instrument type Cassegrain Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 430 mm Instrument focale length 2924 mm Instrument focale/diameter 6.8 Filter(s) L Camera QHY 268M Sensor CMOS Sensor size 23.5x15.7 mm2 Sensor pixels number 6252x4176 Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 3x3 Mount Astelco NTM500 Exposure total time 1260 s Exposure details 42x30s Air mass 2.9 Observatory MPC code W96 Location SpaceObs Chili Reference stars catalog ATLAS2
Used softwares Tycho Tracker Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.79 "/pix Image processing Prism11 & Gimp Remarks or comments 12P très basse sur l'horizon Observation submission date 2024 Jul 30 13h07m59s Observation modification date 2024 Aug 27 16h28m08s