[vsnet-grb 117582] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Feb 9 10:14:22 JST 2010


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 09 Feb 10 01:14:22 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   166.136d {+11h 04m 33s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  +38.198d {+38d 11' 54"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL:  65.027d
SLEW_TIME:       4500.00 SOD {01:15:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       15236 TJD;    40 DOY;   10/02/09
OBS_TIME:        1140.00 [sec]   (=19.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        Mkn 421 
TGT_NUM:         30352,   Seg_Num: 199
MERIT:           90.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=6=0x6  UVOT=12431=0x308F
SUN_POSTN:       322.58d {+21h 30m 19s}  -14.76d {-14d 45' 32"}
SUN_DIST:        148.62 [deg]   Sun_angle= 10.4 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      264.64d {+17h 38m 34s}  -25.68d {-25d 40' 41"}
MOON_DIST:       111.76 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      21 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      179.84, 65.05 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      151.24, 29.50 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 272.73,17.43 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.00) 2.61 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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