[vsnet-grb 56357] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Oct 9 02:12:27 JST 2007


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Mon 08 Oct 07 17:12:27 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   166.114d {+11h 04m 27s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  +38.209d {+38d 12' 32"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 139.014d
SLEW_TIME:       61980.00 SOD {17:13:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14381 TJD;   281 DOY;   07/10/08
OBS_TIME:        1200.00 [sec]   (=20.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        Mkn 421 
TGT_NUM:         52100,   Seg_Num: 14
MERIT:           50.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=6=0x6  UVOT=10=0xA
SUN_POSTN:       193.85d {+12h 55m 25s}   -5.93d {-05d 55' 30"}
SUN_DIST:         51.02 [deg]   Sun_angle= 1.8 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      168.11d {+11h 12m 26s}   +4.02d {+04d 01' 14"}
MOON_DIST:        34.19 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      6 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      179.83, 65.03 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      151.22, 29.50 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 216.41,3.65 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.00) 2.10 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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