2P/Encke (Record n° 27441)
Perihelion distance : 0.34 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 11 °
Orbital period : 3.3 years
Eccentricity : 0.85
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2023 Aug 20 02h34 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6 " Coma diameter 2.10 ' r (dist/Sun) 1.327 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.305 AU Right ascension 76.32058 ° Declination +32.73658 ° MPC report COD L27
CON J.-F. Soulier [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.25-m f/3.5 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK L27 2023.08.20 09:14:35
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0002P KC2023 08 20.10721 05 05 16.94 +32 44 11.7 17.7 R L27
0002P KC2023 08 20.13275 05 05 24.34 +32 44 28.0 18.0 R L27
0002P KC2023 08 20.15157 05 05 29.83 +32 44 40.4 17.7 R L27
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 250 mm Instrument focale length 875 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.5 Filter None Camera ATIK 414 EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -5 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PARAMOUNT ME Autoguide No Picture exposure details 40 x 30s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban (04) Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares Astrometrica Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.49 "/pix Observation submission date 2023 Aug 20 07h23m08s Observation modification date 2023 Aug 20 08h21m46s