[vsnet-grb 90675] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Jan 28 05:47:58 JST 2009


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 27 Jan 09 20:47:57 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   210.854d {+14h 03m 25s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  -41.394d {-41d 23' 37"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 116.246d
SLEW_TIME:       74880.00 SOD {20:48:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14858 TJD;    27 DOY;   09/01/27
OBS_TIME:        720.00 [sec]   (=12.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        NGC5408 X-1 
TGT_NUM:         90041,   Seg_Num: 63
MERIT:           99.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=7=0x7  UVOT=9=0x9
SUN_POSTN:       310.47d {+20h 41m 54s}  -18.25d {-18d 15' 05"}
SUN_DIST:         84.84 [deg]   Sun_angle= 6.6 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      327.02d {+21h 48m 05s}  -11.79d {-11d 47' 31"}
MOON_DIST:       100.76 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      2 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      317.16, 19.48 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      223.73,-26.98 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 161.89,8.50 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.11) 1.82 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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