2P/Encke (Record n° 16121)
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 Sep 22 03h21 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 2.496 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.524 AU Right ascension 8.74563 ° Declination +15.587 ° MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2016.09.22 07:25:01
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P KC2016 09 22.13975 00 34 58.95 +15 35 13.2 18.1 N A77
0002P KC2016 09 22.14595 00 34 58.34 +15 35 11.5 17.9 N A77
0002P KC2016 09 22.15217 00 34 57.74 +15 35 09.5 18.1 N A77
Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter None Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Picture exposure details 12x120s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.78 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Sep 22 07h29m53s Observation modification date 2016 Sep 22 07h54m27s