2P/Encke (Record n° 9896)
Perihelion distance : 0.34 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 11 °
Orbital period : 3.3 years
Eccentricity : 0.85
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2013 Aug 12 08h55 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 4.8 " r (dist/Sun) 1.822 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.592 AU Right ascension 48.71113 ° Declination +28.04297 ° MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.F Soulier
MEA J.F Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2013.08.12
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0002P KC2013 08 12.37160 03 14 50.67 +28 02 34.7 18.9 N W96
0002P KC2013 08 12.39146 03 14 53.13 +28 02 53.3 18.7 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Camera QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor pixels number 3326 x 2504 Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 30 X 60s Moon elongation 148 ° Air mass 1.79 Observatory MPC code W96 Location Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2013 Aug 12 22h01m48s Observation modification date 2013 Aug 12 22h06m50s