[vsnet-grb 57153] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Oct 17 08:02:14 JST 2007


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 16 Oct 07 23:02:13 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:       82980.00 SOD {23:03:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14389 TJD;   289 DOY;   07/10/16
OBS_TIME:        960.00 [sec]   (=16.0 [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:       201.47d {+13h 25m 52s}   -9.01d {-09d 00' 51"}
SUN_DIST:         57.50 [deg]   Sun_angle= 2.4 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      265.55d {+17h 42m 12s}  -28.20d {-28d 11' 47"}
MOON_DIST:       113.85 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      27 [%]
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 171.46,18.50 [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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