[vsnet-grb 88411] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Nov 25 21:44:28 JST 2008


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 25 Nov 08 12:44:27 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   100.206d {+06h 40m 50s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:   +9.786d {+09d 47' 10"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 125.604d
SLEW_TIME:       45900.00 SOD {12:45:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14795 TJD;   330 DOY;   08/11/25
OBS_TIME:        540.00 [sec]   (=9.0 [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:       241.61d {+16h 06m 27s}  -20.88d {-20d 52' 33"}
SUN_DIST:        141.16 [deg]   Sun_angle= 9.4 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      215.46d {+14h 21m 50s}  -19.44d {-19d 26' 34"}
MOON_DIST:       116.82 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      4 [%]
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 254.83,-3.26 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=4.66) 6.95 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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