2P/Encke (Record n° 10362)
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 Oct 30 03h59 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 12.7 Aperture radius for m2 11.3 " r (dist/Sun) 0.655 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.570 AU Right ascension 185.58375 ° Declination +12.22147 ° 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 2013.10.30
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P C2013 10 30.16642 12 22 20.10 +12 13 17.3 12.7 N C10
0002P C2013 10 30.17446 12 22 23.59 +12 12 29.1 12.7 N C10
0002P C2013 10 30.18237 12 22 27.02 +12 11 45.2 12.7 N C10
0002P C2013 10 30.19071 12 22 30.52 +12 10 56.4 12.7 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 -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60 Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 60 X 15s Seeing 4 Moon elongation 24 ° Air mass 4.23 Observatory MPC code C10 Location Seine et Marne Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.62 "/pix Observation submission date 2013 Oct 30 11h37m44s Observation modification date 2013 Oct 30 11h42m47s