[vsnet-grb 89488] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Jan 14 22:58:34 JST 2009


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Wed 14 Jan 09 13:58:33 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   161.282d {+10h 45m 08s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  -59.704d {-59d 42' 14"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 143.056d
SLEW_TIME:       50340.00 SOD {13:59:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14845 TJD;    14 DOY;   09/01/14
OBS_TIME:        1800.00 [sec]   (=30.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        Eta Carinae 
TGT_NUM:         31308,   Seg_Num: 9
MERIT:           87.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=6=0x6  UVOT=4088=0xFF8
SUN_POSTN:       296.45d {+19h 45m 49s}  -21.21d {-21d 12' 44"}
SUN_DIST:         91.15 [deg]   Sun_angle= 9.0 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      161.80d {+10h 47m 13s}   +4.77d {+04d 46' 06"}
MOON_DIST:        64.52 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      84 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      287.61, -0.64 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      202.19,-58.93 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 88.73,-17.20 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.21) 1.31 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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