2P/Encke (Record n° 17250)
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 Mar 02 18h36 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 8.6 Aperture radius for m1 1.32 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 9.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 13.2 " r (dist/Sun) 0.400 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.792 AU Right ascension 1.41263 ° Declination +4.63864 ° 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 2017.03.02
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P C2017 03 02.77472 00 05 39.03 +04 38 19.1 9.7 N A77
0002P C2017 03 02.78580 00 05 38.06 +04 37 52.9 9.9 N A77
0002P C2017 03 02.77625 00 05 38.92 +04 38 16.0 8.6 T A77
0002P C2017 03 02.78389 00 05 38.15 +04 37 58.6 8.6 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 Mar 02 20h54m38s Observation modification date 2017 Apr 26 23h17m32s