[vsnet-grb 67221] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Feb 26 05:12:42 JST 2008


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Mon 25 Feb 08 20:12:41 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   190.697d {+12h 42m 47s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  +62.805d {+62d 48' 18"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL:  28.850d
SLEW_TIME:       72780.00 SOD {20:13:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14521 TJD;    56 DOY;   08/02/25
OBS_TIME:        1020.00 [sec]   (=17.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        RX J1242.7+6246 
TGT_NUM:         36543,   Seg_Num: 3
MERIT:           50.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=7=0x7  UVOT=12431=0x308F
SUN_POSTN:       338.34d {+22h 33m 22s}   -9.09d {-09d 05' 22"}
SUN_DIST:        121.46 [deg]   Sun_angle= 9.8 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      207.18d {+13h 48m 44s}  -16.29d {-16d 17' 07"}
MOON_DIST:        80.09 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      79 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      124.63, 54.29 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      148.43, 58.19 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 130.23,-4.06 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.07) 10.04 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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