[vsnet-grb 65178] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Jan 29 18:46:17 JST 2008


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 29 Jan 08 09:46:16 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   238.260d {+15h 53m 02s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  -50.492d {-50d 29' 28"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL:  93.528d
SLEW_TIME:       35220.00 SOD {09:47:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14494 TJD;    29 DOY;   08/01/29
OBS_TIME:        600.00 [sec]   (=10.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        IGR J15529--5029 
TGT_NUM:         37073,   Seg_Num: 1
MERIT:           50.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=0=0x0  UVOT=346=0x15A
SUN_POSTN:       311.28d {+20h 45m 08s}  -18.04d {-18d 02' 40"}
SUN_DIST:         65.35 [deg]   Sun_angle= 4.9 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      206.27d {+13h 45m 04s}  -15.86d {-15d 51' 38"}
MOON_DIST:        43.21 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      58 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      329.90,  2.62 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      247.38,-29.51 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 6.56,-11.63 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.60) 7.63 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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