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2P/Encke

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 deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 3.870 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.872 AU
Right ascension346.42446 °
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 typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountF60
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time1920 s
Picture exposure details16 X 120s
Seeing3
Moon elongation147 °
Air mass1.66
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-3
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 LOG FC GIMP
Observation submission date2012 Sep 20 02h46m07s
Observation modification date2012 Sep 20 02h53m46s

(Record n° 7486)

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