2P/Encke (Record n° 16300)
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 09 21h10 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.5 " r (dist/Sun) 2.345 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.367 AU Right ascension 0.58725 ° Declination +13.42261 ° MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.30-m f/3.8 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2016.10.09
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P KC2016 10 09.88168 00 02 20.94 +13 25 21.4 17.8 N C10
0002P KC2016 10 09.91758 00 02 16.64 +13 25 01.3 17.8 N C10
0002P KC2016 10 09.97413 00 02 09.90 +13 24 28.7 17.9 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1140 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.8 Filter None Camera ST8 XME Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60a Axis Instruments Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 36 x 180s Observatory MPC code C10 Location Seine et Marne Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.62 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Oct 10 08h52m24s Observation modification date 2016 Oct 10 15h01m08s