Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is on Sun, 21.04.2024 at 11:10 at its smallest distance of 116.80 million km to the Sun.

It reached on Sun, 21.04.2024 at 17:41 its maximum brightness of mv = 3.4. It is not very bright (mv = 3.4) but visible to the unaided eye.