2P/Encke (Record n° 16424)
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 29 19h40 UT by Jean-Francois SoulierMagnitude (MPC m2) 18.7 Magnitude standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius for m2 6.6 " r (dist/Sun) 2.152 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.301 AU Right ascension 351.31325 ° Declination +9.76303 ° MPC report COD A77
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.20-m f/4 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2016.10.29
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P KC2016 10 29.81966 23 25 15.18 +09 45 46.9 18.6 N A77
0002P KC2016 10 29.89111 23 25 08.04 +09 44 58.0 19.0 N A77
0002P KC2016 10 29.90266 23 25 06.85 +09 44 49.6 18.6 N A77
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 800 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4 Filter None Camera ATIK 314L+ Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Astronomy Equipment AEb Autoguide No Picture exposure details 120 x 60s Observatory MPC code A77 Location Dauban (04) Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.65 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Oct 30 09h00m04s Observation modification date 2016 Oct 30 09h01m29s