2P/Encke (Record n° 31975)
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 13 21h39 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.3 Aperture radius for m2 7.2 " Magnitude band G r (dist/Sun) 2.027 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.050 AU Right ascension 5.19088 ° Declination +18.61187 ° ADES report
# version=2022
# observatory
! mpcCode Y87
# submitter
! name J.-G. Bosch
# observers
! name J.-G. Bosch
# measurers
! name J.-G. Bosch
# telescope
! design reflector
! aperture 0.25
! fRatio 4.75
! detector CMO
# software
! astrometry Tycho 13.6
! photometry Tycho 13.6
permID |provID |trkSub |mode|stn |obsTime |ra |dec |rmsRA|rmsDec|rmsFit|astCat |mag |rmsMag|band|photCat |photAp|logSNR|exp |notes|remarks
2P| | TR0007| CMO|Y87 |2026-10-13T21:39:11Z |5.19088 |+18.61187 |0.32 |0.27 |0.42 | Gaia2|17.3 |0.07 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.52 |1000| K|
2P| | TR0007| CMO|Y87 |2026-10-13T21:57:18Z |5.18282 |+18.60984 |0.33 |0.28 |0.43 | Gaia2|17.2 |0.07 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.52 |1000| K|
2P| | TR0007| CMO|Y87 |2026-10-13T22:15:25Z |5.17468 |+18.60772 |0.34 |0.30 |0.45 | Gaia2|17.5 |0.10 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.43 |1000| K|
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 250 mm Instrument focale length 1187.5 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.75 Camera Asi 294MM Sensor CMOS Sensor temperature -5 °C Binning 4x4 Mount EQ6-R pro Picture exposure details 77x25s Observatory MPC code Y87 Location Trevinca skies-Amalthea Reference stars catalog (ast) Gaia2 Reference stars catalog (phot) Gaia2 Used softwares Tycho Tracker Image resize factor 2 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.6 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Oct 14 06h32m57s Observation modification date 2026 Oct 14 06h35m29s