[vsnet-grb 71454] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Apr 16 08:27:34 JST 2008


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 15 Apr 08 23:27:33 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   210.831d {+14h 03m 19s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  -41.408d {-41d 24' 27"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 182.994d
SLEW_TIME:       84480.00 SOD {23:28:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14571 TJD;   106 DOY;   08/04/15
OBS_TIME:        1020.00 [sec]   (=17.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        NGC 5408 X-1 
TGT_NUM:         90041,   Seg_Num: 3
MERIT:           99.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=7=0x7  UVOT=9=0x9
SUN_POSTN:        24.44d {+01h 37m 47s}  +10.17d {+10d 10' 13"}
SUN_DIST:        148.20 [deg]   Sun_angle= 11.6 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      156.94d {+10h 27m 46s}   +8.74d {+08d 44' 11"}
MOON_DIST:        70.44 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      82 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      317.14, 19.47 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      223.71,-27.00 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 12.76,-15.24 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.11) 1.79 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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