2P/Encke (Record n° 17083)
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 29 17h53 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.3 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.5 " Coma diameter 3.50 ' Tail length 0.66 ° r (dist/Sun) 0.964 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.294 AU Right ascension 353.445 ° Declination +6.17131 ° 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 2017.01.29
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P C2017 01 29.74514 23 33 46.80 +06 10 16.7 16.2 N C10
0002P C2017 01 29.78380 23 33 50.12 +06 10 30.7 16.3 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 2x2 Mount F60a Axis instruments Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 12 x 180s Observatory MPC code C10 Location Seine et Marne (77) Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 3.24 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Jan 29 20h50m30s Observation modification date 2017 Jan 29 21h17m31s