[vsnet-grb 57030] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Oct 16 06:04:38 JST 2007


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Mon 15 Oct 07 21:04:37 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: 140.205d
SLEW_TIME:       75900.00 SOD {21:05:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14388 TJD;   288 DOY;   07/10/15
OBS_TIME:        600.00 [sec]   (=10.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        Mkn 421 
TGT_NUM:         52100,   Seg_Num: 15
MERIT:           50.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=6=0x6  UVOT=4088=0xFF8
SUN_POSTN:       200.46d {+13h 21m 50s}   -8.62d {-08d 36' 57"}
SUN_DIST:         56.63 [deg]   Sun_angle= 2.3 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      250.96d {+16h 43m 51s}  -27.42d {-27d 25' 11"}
MOON_DIST:       102.74 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      19 [%]
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 141.03,15.72 [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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