[vsnet-grb 96877] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Apr 21 18:23:15 JST 2009


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Tue 21 Apr 09 09:23:14 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   210.827d {+14h 03m 18s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  -41.407d {-41d 24' 26"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 191.558d
SLEW_TIME:       33840.00 SOD {09:24:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14942 TJD;   111 DOY;   09/04/21
OBS_TIME:        900.00 [sec]   (=15.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        NGC5408 X-1 
TGT_NUM:         90218,   Seg_Num: 6
MERIT:           85.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=7=0x7  UVOT=4083=0xFF3
SUN_POSTN:        29.26d {+01h 57m 02s}  +11.96d {+11d 57' 46"}
SUN_DIST:        150.47 [deg]   Sun_angle= 11.9 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      344.36d {+22h 57m 27s}   -3.28d {-03d 16' 33"}
MOON_DIST:       118.44 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      16 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      317.14, 19.47 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the pointing direction
ECL_COORDS:      223.71,-27.00 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the pointing direction
COMMENTS:        SWIFT Slew Notice.  
COMMENTS:        The spacecraft longitude,latitude at Notice_time is 212.68,-9.86 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.11) 1.95 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



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