2P/Encke (Record n° 17555)
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 Apr 21 08h40 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.7 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.7 " r (dist/Sun) 0.994 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.110 AU Right ascension 340.77592 ° Declination -17.67294 ° MPC report COD W97
CON Thierry Noel [thierrynoel38a@free.fr]
OBS A. Maury, B. Sandness, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.38-m f/4.6 Newtonian reflector + CCD
COM Aperture radius for m2 : 6.7"
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.04.21 13:47:12
AC2 thierrynoel38a@free.fr
NET Gaia DR1
0002P C2017 04 21.36146 22 43 06.22 -17 40 22.6 16.8 N W97
0002P C2017 04 21.37950 22 43 06.95 -17 40 19.5 16.7 N W97
0002P C2017 04 21.39473 22 43 07.48 -17 40 17.5 16.6 N W97
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 380 mm Instrument focale length 1748 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.6 Filter Clear Camera QSI 532ws-M1 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Nova Autoguide No Picture exposure details 10x4mn Observatory MPC code W97 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog (ast) Gaia DR1
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.84 "/pix Image processing Prism (-dark, /flat), Astrometrica (add), Iris (levels, crop) Observation submission date 2017 Apr 21 13h51m59s Observation modification date 2017 Apr 23 17h40m22s