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2P/Encke

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 deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m25.5 "
Tail position angle (PA)138 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.391 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.403 AU
Right ascension3.02446 °
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 configurationConfig2
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
FilterNone
CameraAtik460EX
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Picture exposure details26x180s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Image resize factor0.455
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.78 "/pix
Observation submission date2016 Oct 05 07h52m23s
Observation modification date2016 Oct 05 07h54m37s

(Record n° 16254)

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