2P/Encke (Record n° 17203)
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 21 18h23 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 9.3 Aperture radius for m1 1.32 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 10.5 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 19.8 " r (dist/Sun) 0.552 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.979 AU Right ascension 1.58354 ° Declination +7.49844 ° 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 2017.02.21
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P C2017 02 21.76612 00 06 20.05 +07 29 54.4 10.6 N A77
0002P C2017 02 21.77488 00 06 20.55 +07 29 50.2 10.4 N A77
0002P C2017 02 21.78363 00 06 21.03 +07 29 48.0 10.4 N A77
0002P C2017 02 21.77270 00 06 20.26 +07 29 53.7 9.3 T A77
0002P C2017 02 21.77999 00 06 20.69 +07 29 51.2 9.3 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 20 x 60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 3.3 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Feb 21 22h54m54s Observation modification date 2017 Apr 25 08h54m10s