2P/Encke (Record n° 16597)
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 Nov 30 17h46 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18.3 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 1.804 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.369 AU Right ascension 343.44788 ° Declination +4.97878 ° 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 2016.11.30 21:06:26
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0002P KC2016 11 30.74044 22 53 47.49 +04 58 43.6 18.4 N A77
0002P KC2016 11 30.75740 22 53 47.14 +04 58 38.1 18.3 N A77
0002P KC2016 11 30.77436 22 53 46.81 +04 58 32.6 18.3 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 -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Picture exposure details 33x120s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-SA2.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.78 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Nov 30 22h01m02s Observation modification date 2016 Nov 30 22h41m39s