2P/Encke (Record n° 31916)
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 Sep 22 23h30 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.75 " Magnitude band r r (dist/Sun) 2.240 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.301 AU Right ascension 16.37275 ° Declination +20.44494 ° 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 2026.09.23 07:58:16
NET ATLAS2
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
0002P KC2026 09 22.97902 01 05 29.46 +20 26 41.8 17.9 r L27
0002P KC2026 09 22.99128 01 05 28.23 +20 26 41.0 17.9 r L27
0002P KC2026 09 23.00355 01 05 26.99 +20 26 40.1 18.0 r L27
0002P KC2026 09 23.01441 01 05 25.89 +20 26 39.3 18.1 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 Picture exposure details 60 x 60s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban Reference stars catalog (ast) ATLAS2 Reference stars catalog (phot) ATLAS2 Used softwares Tycho Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Sep 23 07h30m19s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 23 08h01m26s