[vsnet-grb 56349] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Oct 9 00:25:16 JST 2007


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Mon 08 Oct 07 15:25:16 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   166.132d {+11h 04m 32s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  +38.192d {+38d 11' 31"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 132.461d
SLEW_TIME:       55560.00 SOD {15:26:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14381 TJD;   281 DOY;   07/10/08
OBS_TIME:        600.00 [sec]   (=10.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        Mkn 421 
TGT_NUM:         52100,   Seg_Num: 13
MERIT:           50.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=0=0x0  UVOT=10=0xA
SUN_POSTN:       193.78d {+12h 55m 08s}   -5.90d {-05d 53' 47"}
SUN_DIST:         50.94 [deg]   Sun_angle= 1.8 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      167.30d {+11h 09m 13s}   +4.45d {+04d 26' 53"}
MOON_DIST:        33.72 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      6 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      179.86, 65.05 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      151.24, 29.49 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 204.53,-10.47 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.00) 2.97 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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