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In La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos we have the opportunity to see the passage of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks in this series of images captured last night in Vic, in the Osona region.
In accelerated video you can see the green color and slightly the tail. In the photo we also see the green color with the soft tail. I have captured the images with the reflex camera and a telephoto lens.
By combining various photos we see that, apart from the green color, the path is slightly different from that of the stars, it moves to the left and leaves the constellation of Andromeda.
12P/Pons-Brooks is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 71 years. Comets with an orbital period of 20 to 200 years are called Halley-type comets.
It is one of the brightest known periodic comets, reaching an absolute visual magnitude of approximately 5 as it approaches perihelion.
Comet Pons-Brooks was definitively discovered at the Marseille Observatory in July 1812 by Jean-Louis Pons and, on its next appearance in 1883, by William Robert Brooks. But there are old records of comets that may have been 12P/Pons-Brooks.
