2P/Encke (Record n° 16659)
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 04 17h34 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18.7 Magnitude standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius for m2 6.5 " r (dist/Sun) 1.756 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.382 AU Right ascension 343.22433 ° Declination +4.65078 ° 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 2016.12.04
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P KC2016 12 04.73174 22 52 53.84 +04 39 02.8 18.5 N C10
0002P KC2016 12 04.77290 22 52 53.32 +04 38 51.9 18.8 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 -25 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60a Axis instruments Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 20 x 180s Observatory MPC code C10 Location Seine et Marne (77) Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.62 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Dec 04 19h57m29s Observation modification date 2016 Dec 04 20h10m07s