2P/Encke (Record n° 16618)
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 Dec 01 18h16 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18.3 Magnitude standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 1.792 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.372 AU Right ascension 343.37521 ° Declination +4.8885 ° 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 2016.12.02 06:40:23
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0002P KC2016 12 01.76109 22 53 30.05 +04 53 18.6 18.1 N A77
0002P KC2016 12 01.77828 22 53 29.74 +04 53 13.2 18.2 N A77
0002P KC2016 12 01.79550 22 53 29.44 +04 53 08.0 18.2 N A77
0002P KC2016 12 01.81113 22 53 29.16 +04 53 02.9 18.5 N A77
0002P KC2016 12 01.82988 22 53 28.85 +04 52 57.4 18.6 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 54X120S Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor 0.5 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.78 "/pix Remarks or comments Possible Dust Trail Observation submission date 2016 Dec 02 06h56m22s Observation modification date 2016 Dec 03 20h10m51s