[vsnet-grb 95105] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Mar 31 08:07:42 JST 2009


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Mon 30 Mar 09 23:07:41 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   166.096d {+11h 04m 23s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  +38.227d {+38d 13' 37"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 316.524d
SLEW_TIME:       83280.00 SOD {23:08:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14920 TJD;    89 DOY;   09/03/30
OBS_TIME:        1320.00 [sec]   (=22.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        Mkn421 
TGT_NUM:         30352,   Seg_Num: 118
MERIT:           89.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=6=0x6  UVOT=12431=0x308F
SUN_POSTN:         9.54d {+00h 38m 09s}   +4.11d {+04d 06' 27"}
SUN_DIST:        132.52 [deg]   Sun_angle= -10.4 [hr] (East of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:       62.78d {+04h 11m 06s}  +25.67d {+25d 40' 14"}
MOON_DIST:        84.09 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      21 [%]
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 338.77,14.60 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.00) 1.80 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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