[vsnet-grb 96960] GCN/SWIFT_POINTING_DIR

Bacodine vxw at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Apr 22 13:43:42 JST 2009


TITLE:           GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE:     Wed 22 Apr 09 04:43:41 UT
NOTICE_TYPE:     SWIFT Pointing Direction
NEXT_POINT_RA:   166.092d {+11h 04m 22s} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_DEC:  +38.222d {+38d 13' 18"} (J2000)
NEXT_POINT_ROLL: 301.211d
SLEW_TIME:       17040.00 SOD {04:44:00.00} UT
SLEW_DATE:       14943 TJD;   112 DOY;   09/04/22
OBS_TIME:        600.00 [sec]   (=10.0 [min])
TGT_NAME:        Mkn421 
TGT_NUM:         30352,   Seg_Num: 129
MERIT:           90.00
INST_MODES:      BAT=0=0x0  XRT=6=0x6  UVOT=12431=0x308F
SUN_POSTN:        30.01d {+02h 00m 03s}  +12.23d {+12d 14' 05"}
SUN_DIST:        115.07 [deg]   Sun_angle= -9.1 [hr] (East of Sun)
MOON_POSTN:      353.74d {+23h 34m 57s}   +1.41d {+01d 24' 40"}
MOON_DIST:       139.81 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM:      10 [%]
GAL_COORDS:      179.82, 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 295.69,-3.05 [deg].  
COMMENTS:        There is a bright star (mag=6.00) 2.13 arcmin from this position.  
COMMENTS:        This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.  



More information about the vsnet-grb mailing list