2P/Encke (Record n° 17075)
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 26 17h55 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.4 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 8.1 " Coma diameter 3.10 ' Tail length 0.65 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.014 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.319 AU Right ascension 352.403 ° Declination +5.87647 ° 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 2017.01.26
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P C2017 01 26.74625 23 29 36.72 +05 52 35.3 16.4 N C10
0002P C2017 01 26.75944 23 29 37.78 +05 52 40.1 16.5 N C10
0002P C2017 01 26.77432 23 29 38.94 +05 52 45.4 16.4 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 20 x 100s 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 26 19h46m02s Observation modification date 2017 Jan 27 14h31m00s