2P/Encke (Record n° 17234)
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 25 18h25 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 8.8 Aperture radius for m1 1.32 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 10.4 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 13.2 " r (dist/Sun) 0.480 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.899 AU Right ascension 2.20183 ° Declination +6.83308 ° 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 2017.02.25
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P C2017 02 25.76734 00 08 48.44 +06 49 59.1 10.4 N A77
0002P C2017 02 25.77461 00 08 48.53 +06 49 51.2 10.4 N A77
0002P C2017 02 25.78225 00 08 48.61 +06 49 45.2 10.4 N A77
0002P C2017 02 25.77079 00 08 48.24 +06 49 57.2 8.8 T A77
0002P C2017 02 25.77843 00 08 48.40 +06 49 50.9 8.8 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 30s 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 26 00h00m37s Observation modification date 2017 Apr 26 23h13m35s