2P/Encke (Record n° 31747)
Perihelion distance : 0.34 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 11 °
Orbital period : 3.3 years
Eccentricity : 0.85
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Aug 10 00h38 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 19.4 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.75 " r (dist/Sun) 2.621 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.118 AU Right ascension 23.57075 ° Declination +18.09411 ° MPC report COD L27
CON J.-F. Soulier
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.25-m f/3.5 reflector + CCD
NUM 3
ACK MPCReport file updated 2026.08.10 07:06:34
NET ATLAS2
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
0002P KC2026 08 10.02631 01 34 16.98 +18 05 38.8 19.3 r L27
0002P KC2026 08 10.04078 01 34 17.07 +18 05 43.9 19.3 r L27
0002P KC2026 08 10.05667 01 34 17.16 +18 05 49.5 19.6 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 -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PARAMOUNT ME Autoguide No Exposure details 60 x 60s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban Reference stars catalog (ast) ATLAS2
Used softwares Tycho Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Aug 10 07h54m15s Observation modification date 2026 Aug 10 10h20m59s