2P/Encke (Record n° 16274)
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 07 20h44 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.6 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 2.363 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.380 AU Right ascension 1.57542 ° Declination +13.73919 ° 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 2016.10.08 08:03:59
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0002P KC2016 10 07.86396 00 06 18.10 +13 44 21.1 18.3 N A77
0002P KC2016 10 07.88183 00 06 15.96 +13 44 11.1 17.2 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 15x180s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor 0.3 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.78 "/pix Remarks or comments Bad seeing Observation submission date 2016 Oct 08 08h21m33s Observation modification date 2016 Oct 08 08h35m07s