[vsnet-grb 56380] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Oct 9 07:01:37 JST 2007


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Mon 08 Oct 07 22:01:37 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: 132.047d
SLEW_TIME:       79320.00 SOD {22:02:00.00} 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:       194.04d {+12h 56m 09s}   -6.00d {-06d 00' 05"}
SUN_DIST:         51.17 [deg]   Sun_angle= 1.9 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      170.27d {+11h 21m 06s}   +2.87d {+02d 51' 58"}
MOON_DIST:        35.49 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      5 [%]
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 143.64,4.05 [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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