[vsnet-grb 94682] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Mar 25 07:29:54 JST 2009


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 24 Mar 09 22:29:53 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   166.097d {+11h 04m 23s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  +38.228d {+38d 13' 40"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 319.410d
SLEW_TIME:       81000.00 SOD {22:30:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14914 TJD;    83 DOY;   09/03/24
OBS_TIME:        1380.00 [sec]   (=23.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        Mkn421 
TGT_NUM:         30352,   Seg_Num: 115
MERIT:           89.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=6=0x6  UVOT=12431=0x308F
SUN_POSTN:         4.05d {+00h 16m 12s}   +1.75d {+01d 45' 13"}
SUN_DIST:        136.81 [deg]   Sun_angle= -10.8 [hr] (East of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      343.62d {+22h 54m 30s}   -3.85d {-03d 51' 01"}
MOON_DIST:       145.59 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      3 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      179.80, 65.01 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      151.19, 29.51 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 338.04,20.21 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.00) 1.74 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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