[vsnet-grb 91180] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Feb 3 18:49:57 JST 2009


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 03 Feb 09 09:49:56 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   210.853d {+14h 03m 25s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  -41.396d {-41d 23' 44"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 121.079d
SLEW_TIME:       35400.00 SOD {09:50:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14865 TJD;    34 DOY;   09/02/03
OBS_TIME:        1020.00 [sec]   (=17.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        NGC5408 X-1 
TGT_NUM:         90041,   Seg_Num: 65
MERIT:           99.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=7=0x7  UVOT=9=0x9
SUN_POSTN:       317.17d {+21h 08m 40s}  -16.42d {-16d 25' 22"}
SUN_DIST:         90.75 [deg]   Sun_angle= 7.1 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:       46.56d {+03h 06m 13s}  +22.86d {+22d 51' 28"}
MOON_DIST:       157.30 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      55 [%]
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 231.27,19.10 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.11) 1.72 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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