2P/Encke (Record n° 9930)
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 20 01h46 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18.5 Magnitude standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius for m2 8.1 " r (dist/Sun) 1.727 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.415 AU Right ascension 52.87163 ° Declination +29.9915 ° 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/3.8 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2013.08.20
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P KC2013 08 20.07365 03 31 29.19 +29 59 29.4 18.7 N C10
0002P KC2013 08 20.09325 03 31 31.83 +29 59 48.0 18.3 N C10
0002P KC2013 08 20.11202 03 31 34.42 +30 00 05.8 18.6 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1140 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.8 Camera ST8 XME Sensor CCD Sensor size 13.8 x 9.2 mm2 Sensor pixels number 1530 x 1020 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60 Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 50 x 60s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 103 ° Air mass 1.41 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.62 "/pix Observation submission date 2013 Aug 20 06h43m29s Observation modification date 2013 Aug 20 06h45m07s