2P/Encke (Record n° 7499)
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 19 21h37 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 19.5 Magnitude standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 3.864 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.872 AU Right ascension 345.92263 ° Declination -1.62653 ° 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 2012.09.19
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0002P KC2012 09 19.90093 23 03 41.43 -01 37 35.5 19.6 N C10
0002P KC2012 09 19.91139 23 03 40.69 -01 37 39.8 19.6 N C10
0002P KC2012 09 19.92174 23 03 40.20 -01 37 42.5 19.2 N C10
0002P KC2012 09 19.93367 23 03 39.40 -01 37 46.9 19.4 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 3000 s Picture exposure details 25 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 117 ° 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 21 10h45m10s Observation modification date 2012 Sep 21 10h52m44s