2P/Encke (Record n° 11690)
Perihelion distance : 0.34 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 11 °
Orbital period : 3.3 years
Eccentricity : 0.85
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Apr 28 09h17 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 20.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 2.392 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.673 AU Right ascension 337.87863 ° Declination -13.61881 ° 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 2014.04.28
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0002P KC2014 04 28.38680 22 31 30.87 -13 37 07.7 20.2 N W96
0002P KC2014 04 28.40584 22 31 31.78 -13 37 02.5 20.1 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 temperature -35 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 26 x 120s Moon elongation 54 ° Air mass 1.60 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 2014 Apr 28 12h41m46s Observation modification date 2014 Apr 28 12h45m58s