2P/Encke (Record n° 16254)
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 Oct 04 21h03 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " Tail position angle
(PA) 138 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.391 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.403 AU Right ascension 3.02446 ° Declination +14.17742 ° 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 2016.10.05 07:34:29
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P KC2016 10 04.87702 00 12 05.87 +14 10 38.7 18.1 N A77
0002P KC2016 10 04.92754 00 11 59.94 +14 10 12.9 18.1 N A77
0002P KC2016 10 04.98143 00 11 53.63 +14 09 45.7 17.8 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 26x180s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Image resize factor 0.455 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.78 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Oct 05 07h52m23s Observation modification date 2016 Oct 05 07h54m37s