[vsnet-grb 90654] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Jan 27 21:11:43 JST 2009


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 27 Jan 09 12:11:42 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   166.136d {+11h 04m 33s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  +38.219d {+38d 13' 09"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL:  65.201d
SLEW_TIME:       43920.00 SOD {12:12:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14858 TJD;    27 DOY;   09/01/27
OBS_TIME:        660.00 [sec]   (=11.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        Mkn421 
TGT_NUM:         30352,   Seg_Num: 107
MERIT:           99.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=6=0x6  UVOT=12431=0x308F
SUN_POSTN:       310.10d {+20h 40m 25s}  -18.35d {-18d 20' 42"}
SUN_DIST:        142.84 [deg]   Sun_angle= 9.6 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      322.90d {+21h 31m 36s}  -13.60d {-13d 36' 03"}
MOON_DIST:       147.87 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      1 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      179.79, 65.05 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      151.23, 29.52 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 159.64,8.14 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.00) 1.37 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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