[vsnet-grb 57038] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Oct 16 04:28:19 JST 2007


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Mon 15 Oct 07 19:28:16 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:       70140.00 SOD {19:29:00.00} 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:       200.40d {+13h 21m 35s}   -8.59d {-08d 35' 28"}
SUN_DIST:         56.58 [deg]   Sun_angle= 2.3 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      250.07d {+16h 40m 18s}  -27.32d {-27d 19' 19"}
MOON_DIST:       102.05 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      18 [%]
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 165.73,15.75 [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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