2P/Encke (Record n° 17045)
Perihelion distance : 0.34 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 11 °
Orbital period : 3.3 years
Eccentricity : 0.85
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Jan 17 17h46 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.1 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 8.1 " Coma diameter 3 ' Tail length 0.63 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.158 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.376 AU Right ascension 349.54267 ° Declination +5.07461 ° 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 2017.01.17
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P C2017 01 17.74001 23 18 10.24 +05 04 28.6 17.2 N C10
0002P C2017 01 17.76241 23 18 11.77 +05 04 35.4 17.0 N C10
0002P C2017 01 17.78681 23 18 13.45 +05 04 41.9 17.1 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 -30 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60a Axis instruments Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 30 x 120s 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 2017 Jan 17 23h10m10s Observation modification date 2017 Jan 17 23h51m30s