2P/Encke (Record n° 31962)
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 Oct 11 20h12 UT by Tiago Ferreira
(Copyright Tiago Ferreira)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.5 Aperture radius for m2 8.4 " Magnitude band Vj r (dist/Sun) 2.048 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.068 AU Right ascension 6.47851 ° Declination +18.93114 ° ADES report
# version=2022
# observatory
! mpcCode R39
# submitter
! name T. Ferreira
# observers
! name Dobsonian Power
# measurers
! name Tiago Ferreira
# telescope
! design Reflector
! aperture 0.41
! fRatio 3.3
! detector CCD
# software
! astrometry Tycho 13.7
! photometry Tycho 13.7
permID |provID |trkSub |mode|stn |obsTime |ra |dec |rmsRA|rmsDec|rmsFit|astCat |mag |rmsMag|band|photCat |photAp|logSNR|exp |notes|remarks
2P| | TR0000| CCD|R39 |2026-10-11T20:12:16Z |6.47851 |+18.93114 |0.35 |0.29 |0.45 | ATLAS2|17.1 |0.11 | Vj| ATLAS2| 8.4 |1.42 | 192| K|
2P| | TR0000| CCD|R39 |2026-10-11T20:17:33Z |6.47609 |+18.93071 |0.37 |0.29 |0.47 | ATLAS2|17.6 |0.12 | Vj| ATLAS2| 8.4 |1.28 | 192| K|
2P| | TR0000| CCD|R39 |2026-10-11T20:22:29Z |6.47403 |+18.93005 |0.38 |0.30 |0.48 | ATLAS2|17.9 |0.11 | Vj| ATLAS2| 8.4 |1.13 | 192| K|
Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 410 mm Instrument focale length 1353 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.3 Sensor CMOS Picture exposure details 72x8s Observatory MPC code R39 Reference stars catalog (ast) ATLAS2 Reference stars catalog (phot) ATLAS2 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.57 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Oct 11 20h56m51s Observation modification date 2026 Oct 11 21h00m24s