2P/Encke (Record n° 31788)
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 23 00h14 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 19.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.75 " Magnitude band r r (dist/Sun) 2.513 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.845 AU Right ascension 23.358 ° Declination +19.225 ° 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 4
ACK MPCReport file updated 2026.08.23 08:34:53
NET ATLAS2
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
0002P KC2026 08 23.00954 01 33 25.92 +19 13 30.0 19.3 r L27
0002P KC2026 08 23.03264 01 33 25.52 +19 13 36.6 19.0 r L27
0002P KC2026 08 23.05575 01 33 25.11 +19 13 43.2 19.2 r L27
0002P KC2026 08 23.07887 01 33 24.72 +19 13 49.7 19.1 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 120 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 23 09h29m32s Observation modification date 2026 Aug 26 10h22m10s