[vsnet-grb 81257] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Aug 27 08:18:51 JST 2008


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 26 Aug 08 23:18:50 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   207.704d {+13h 50m 49s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:   +5.370d {+05d 22' 11"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 268.373d
SLEW_TIME:       83940.00 SOD {23:19:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14704 TJD;   239 DOY;   08/08/26
OBS_TIME:        420.00 [sec]   (=7.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        1RXSJ135054.9+052214 
TGT_NUM:         37692,   Seg_Num: 1
MERIT:           50.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=0=0x0  UVOT=426=0x1AA
SUN_POSTN:       155.96d {+10h 23m 50s}  +10.02d {+10d 00' 58"}
SUN_DIST:         51.55 [deg]   Sun_angle= -3.4 [hr] (East of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      105.12d {+07h 00m 30s}  +25.68d {+25d 40' 55"}
MOON_DIST:        99.02 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      18 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      338.59, 64.05 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      203.73, 15.66 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 204.84,19.61 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.01) 9.73 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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