[vsnet-grb 95710] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Apr 7 13:35:29 JST 2009


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 07 Apr 09 04:35:28 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   210.847d {+14h 03m 23s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  -41.403d {-41d 24' 08"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 141.481d
SLEW_TIME:       16560.00 SOD {04:36:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14928 TJD;    97 DOY;   09/04/07
OBS_TIME:        420.00 [sec]   (=7.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        NGC5408 X-1 
TGT_NUM:         90218,   Seg_Num: 2
MERIT:           99.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=7=0x7  UVOT=4083=0xFF3
SUN_POSTN:        16.13d {+01h 04m 32s}   +6.87d {+06d 52' 07"}
SUN_DIST:        142.98 [deg]   Sun_angle= 11.0 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      166.78d {+11h 07m 07s}   +2.04d {+02d 02' 15"}
MOON_DIST:        59.11 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      93 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      317.15, 19.47 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      223.73,-26.99 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 242.24,0.67 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.11) 1.47 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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