2P/Encke (Record n° 15766)
Perihelion distance : 0.34 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 11 °
Orbital period : 3.3 years
Eccentricity : 0.85
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2016 Aug 02 08h36 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 20.1 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.2 " r (dist/Sun) 2.893 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.424 AU Right ascension 18.20575 ° Declination +15.01514 ° MPC report COD W96
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-B. de Vanssay, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/5.4 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2016.08.02
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P KC2016 08 02.35854 01 12 49.38 +15 00 54.5 20.2 N W96
0002P KC2016 08 02.36983 01 12 49.38 +15 00 57.6 20.1 N W96
0002P KC2016 08 02.38113 01 12 49.38 +15 01 00.5 20.1 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 2160 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.4 Filter None Camera QSI583 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 3x3 Mount VMA 200 Autoguide No Picture exposure details 60 x 60s Moon elongation 102 ° Air mass 1.29 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro d'Atacama Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.55 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Aug 02 11h57m16s Observation modification date 2016 Aug 02 13h22m15s