2P/Encke (Record n° 17186)
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 18 18h35 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 10.2 Aperture radius for m1 0.8 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.9 Magnitude standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 0.607 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.034 AU Right ascension 0.75554 ° Declination +7.64344 ° 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
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.02.19 07:28:26
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0002P C2017 02 18.77420 00 03 01.33 +07 38 36.4 13.8 N A77
0002P C2017 02 18.77805 00 03 01.60 +07 38 36.1 13.8 N A77
0002P C2017 02 18.78147 00 03 01.82 +07 38 37.1 14.1 N A77
0002P C2017 02 18.78375 00 03 02.05 +07 38 37.3 14.1 N A77
0002P C2017 02 18.78716 00 03 02.37 +07 38 35.7 13.7 N A77
0002P C2017 02 18.79098 00 03 02.53 +07 38 36.1 10.2 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 2x2 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Picture exposure details 18x30s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-SA2.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.6 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Feb 19 07h39m03s Observation modification date 2017 Feb 19 07h43m24s