[vsnet-grb 57130] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Oct 17 01:37:44 JST 2007


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 16 Oct 07 16:37:44 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: 137.365d
SLEW_TIME:       59880.00 SOD {16:38:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14389 TJD;   289 DOY;   07/10/16
OBS_TIME:        900.00 [sec]   (=15.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        Mkn 421 
TGT_NUM:         52100,   Seg_Num: 17
MERIT:           50.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=6=0x6  UVOT=4083=0xFF3
SUN_POSTN:       201.22d {+13h 24m 52s}   -8.92d {-08d 54' 58"}
SUN_DIST:         57.28 [deg]   Sun_angle= 2.3 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      261.92d {+17h 27m 40s}  -28.15d {-28d 08' 58"}
MOON_DIST:       111.12 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      25 [%]
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 271.30,18.26 [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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