2P/Encke (Record n° 17197)
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 20 18h31 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 9.5 Aperture radius for m1 1.32 ' r (dist/Sun) 0.570 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.998 AU Right ascension 1.33196 ° Declination +7.57303 ° MPC report COD A77
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.20-m f/4 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.02.20
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P C2017 02 20.77135 00 05 19.67 +07 34 22.9 9.4 T A77
0002P C2017 02 20.78625 00 05 20.68 +07 34 20.1 9.5 T A77
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 800 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4 Filter None Camera ATIK 314 L+ Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Astronomic Equipment AEb Autoguide No Picture exposure details 30 x 60s Observatory MPC code A77 Location Dauban (04) Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 3.3 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Feb 20 21h20m15s Observation modification date 2017 Feb 20 23h28m39s