2P/Encke (Record n° 17116)
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 Feb 07 18h09 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 12.3 Aperture radius for m1 0.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.74 " r (dist/Sun) 0.808 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.199 AU Right ascension 356.77446 ° Declination +7.05492 ° MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
COM Photometry aperture radius for m2 = 5.74 arcsec
COM Photometry aperture radius for m1 = 24.6 arcsec
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.02.07 22:11:49
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET Gaia DR1
0002P KC2017 02 07.75648 23 47 05.87 +07 03 17.7 15.2 N A77
0002P KC2017 02 07.76779 23 47 06.83 +07 03 20.8 15.1 N A77
0002P KC2017 02 07.77824 23 47 07.73 +07 03 25.2 15.2 N A77
0002P KC2017 02 07.78779 23 47 08.58 +07 03 28.0 12.3 T A77
Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter None Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Picture exposure details 24x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) Gaia DR1
Image resize factor 0.3 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.78 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Feb 07 22h41m29s Observation modification date 2017 Feb 07 22h43m26s