2P/Encke (Record n° 7486)
Perihelion distance : 0.34 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 11 °
Orbital period : 3.3 years
Eccentricity : 0.85
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Sep 17 21h59 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 19.6 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 3.870 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.872 AU Right ascension 346.42446 ° Declination -1.43867 ° MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.30-m f/3 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.09.17
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0002P KC2012 09 17.91625 23 05 41.87 -01 26 19.2 19.5 N C10
0002P KC2012 09 17.94532 23 05 40.14 -01 26 29.4 19.7 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9 x 4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765 x 510 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60 Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1920 s Picture exposure details 16 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 147 ° Air mass 1.66 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 LOG FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Sep 20 02h46m07s Observation modification date 2012 Sep 20 02h53m46s