2P/Encke (Record n° 16947)
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 30 18h37 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.6 " Coma diameter 2.40 ' Tail length 0.22 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 280 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.421 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.423 AU Right ascension 345.2525 ° Declination +4.08792 ° 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 2016.12.30
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P KC2016 12 30.77559 23 01 00.60 +04 05 16.5 18.1 N A77
0002P KC2016 12 30.81537 23 01 02.25 +04 05 20.2 17.9 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 -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Astronomy Equipment AEb Autoguide No Picture exposure details 50 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 Dec 30 21h43m07s Observation modification date 2016 Dec 31 08h55m18s