[vsnet-grb 88390] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Nov 25 13:45:34 JST 2008


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 25 Nov 08 04:45:34 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   100.207d {+06h 40m 50s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:   +9.787d {+09d 47' 14"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 122.629d
SLEW_TIME:       17160.00 SOD {04:46:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14795 TJD;   330 DOY;   08/11/25
OBS_TIME:        360.00 [sec]   (=6.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        V590 Mon 
TGT_NUM:         37634,   Seg_Num: 2
MERIT:           50.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=0=0x0  UVOT=4088=0xFF8
SUN_POSTN:       241.26d {+16h 05m 02s}  -20.81d {-20d 48' 43"}
SUN_DIST:        140.85 [deg]   Sun_angle= 9.4 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      211.44d {+14h 05m 45s}  -18.08d {-18d 04' 34"}
MOON_DIST:       112.96 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      6 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      203.02,  2.12 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      100.34,-13.29 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 11.15,-5.86 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=4.66) 6.88 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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