2P/Encke (Record n° 4958)
Perihelion distance : 0.34 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 11 °
Orbital period : 3.3 years
Eccentricity : 0.85
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Oct 19 19h06 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 21.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.3 Aperture radius for m2 4 " r (dist/Sun) 3.890 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.366 AU Right ascension 322.33725 ° Declination -15.14431 ° MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.255-m f/3.6 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.10.19
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0002P KC2011 10 19.79551 21 29 20.94 -15 08 39.5 21.5 N C10
0002P KC2011 10 19.81079 21 29 20.85 -15 08 41.5 20.9 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 254 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.6 Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9 x 4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765 x 510 Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PERL-VIXEN Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 2400 s Picture exposure details 20 x 120s Seeing 2 Moon elongation 152 ° Air mass 2.26 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.04 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DDP GIMP Observation submission date 2011 Oct 20 12h04m01s Observation modification date 2011 Oct 27 21h31m23s