[vsnet-grb 88429] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Nov 26 04:11:54 JST 2008


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 25 Nov 08 19:11:53 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   100.206d {+06h 40m 49s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:   +9.786d {+09d 47' 08"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 126.867d
SLEW_TIME:       69120.00 SOD {19:12:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14795 TJD;   330 DOY;   08/11/25
OBS_TIME:        420.00 [sec]   (=7.0 [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:       241.90d {+16h 07m 36s}  -20.93d {-20d 55' 38"}
SUN_DIST:        141.42 [deg]   Sun_angle= 9.4 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      218.75d {+14h 35m 00s}  -20.48d {-20d 28' 46"}
MOON_DIST:       119.92 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      3 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      203.02,  2.11 [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 164.12,-0.18 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=4.66) 6.99 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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