[vsnet-grb 83523] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Sep 24 00:51:44 JST 2008


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 23 Sep 08 15:51:43 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   130.232d {+08h 40m 56s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  -45.043d {-45d 02' 35"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL:  70.017d
SLEW_TIME:       57120.00 SOD {15:52:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14732 TJD;   267 DOY;   08/09/23
OBS_TIME:        840.00 [sec]   (=14.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        IGR J08408-4503 
TGT_NUM:         30707,   Seg_Num: 13
MERIT:           86.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=7=0x7  UVOT=9=0x9
SUN_POSTN:       180.90d {+12h 03m 37s}   -0.39d {-00d 23' 29"}
SUN_DIST:         63.06 [deg]   Sun_angle= 3.4 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      111.94d {+07h 27m 46s}  +24.37d {+24d 21' 60"}
MOON_DIST:        71.43 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      34 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      264.04, -1.92 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      154.94,-59.75 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 170.72,-0.03 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=5.71) 9.57 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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