The burst telecon number is 1-866-917-6480 / xxxxxx
The GRB time is 18:57:34 or T+0
The Notice time is 18:58:21 or T+46
The wait time before slewing is 0.00
Next Malindi contacts start times / durations after trigger at 2018 240 18:57:34:
2018/240/19:53:24 00:10:47 or T+3350 to T+3997
2018/240/21:34:40 00:11:00 or T+9426 to T+10086
2018/241/01:49:00 00:12:39 or T+24686 to T+25445
Malindi contacts should not interfere with TDRSS messages.
Next Swift SAA for trigger 856977
The next Swift SAA in SWIFT_PREDICTED_SAA_PASSES_2018240_2018260_00.txt
after 2018 240 18:58:20 is:
2018 240 19:53:55 -- 2018 240 20:18:24 or T+3381 to T+4850
*** Expected observing time (ignoring SAAs) is 60.00 seconds ***
SAA should not affect observing time.
Five brightest USNO_B1.0 B2 stars within 200 arc sec:
scat SCAT WCSTools 3.9.5, 30 March 2017, Jessica Mink (jmink@cfa.harvard.edu)
USNO-B1.0 268.7000000 -25.8000000 J2000 r= 0.06 at epoch 2000.0000
5 / 430 USNO-B1.0 Sources (MagB2 brighter than 13.92)
USNO_B1_number RA2000 Dec2000 MagB1 MagR1 MagB2 MagR2 MagN PM NI SG Arcsec
0642.0582742 268.6946833 -25.7731361 14.30 11.37 13.61 12.09 10.40 0 5 8 98.23
0642.0582742 17:54:46.72 -25:46:23.3 (in sexagesimal)
0642.0582833 268.7162194 -25.7761722 14.38 12.75 13.62 13.17 13.00 0 5 12 100.61
0642.0582833 17:54:51.89 -25:46:34.2 (in sexagesimal)
0642.0582670 268.6784667 -25.7960694 14.68 12.07 13.73 12.74 11.11 0 5 7 71.21
0642.0582670 17:54:42.83 -25:47:45.8 (in sexagesimal)
0642.0582949 268.7383417 -25.7691944 14.64 12.79 13.79 13.51 13.08 0 5 13 166.57
0642.0582949 17:54:57.20 -25:46:09.1 (in sexagesimal)
0641.0585133 268.6908333 -25.8269694 15.12 11.29 13.92 12.11 10.41 8 5 5 101.53
0641.0585133 17:54:45.80 -25:49:37.1 (in sexagesimal)
Five brightest USNO_B1.0 B2 stars within 15 arc min:
scat SCAT WCSTools 3.9.5, 30 March 2017, Jessica Mink (jmink@cfa.harvard.edu)
USNO-B1.0 268.7000000 -25.8000000 J2000 r= 0.25 at epoch 2000.0000
5 / 10428 USNO-B1.0 Sources (MagB2 brighter than 10.92)
USNO_B1_number RA2000 Dec2000 MagB1 MagR1 MagB2 MagR2 MagN PM NI SG Arcsec
0640.0588908 268.5765472 -25.9621222 9.63 8.75 9.35 8.72 8.46 10 0 12 707.47
0640.0588908 17:54:18.37 -25:57:43.6 (in sexagesimal)
0641.0586376 268.9542583 -25.8459778 10.87 9.37 10.33 9.32 8.90 10 0 12 840.39
0641.0586376 17:55:49.02 -25:50:45.5 (in sexagesimal)
0641.0585976 268.8676194 -25.8561278 10.86 10.36 10.69 10.34 10.19 10 0 12 579.52
0641.0585976 17:55:28.23 -25:51:22.1 (in sexagesimal)
0641.0585942 268.8611139 -25.8140278 11.42 9.99 10.91 9.94 9.54 10 0 12 524.60
0641.0585942 17:55:26.67 -25:48:50.5 (in sexagesimal)
0642.0583856 268.9344500 -25.7039639 10.94 10.87 10.92 10.87 10.86 10 0 12 835.12
0642.0583856 17:55:44.27 -25:42:14.3 (in sexagesimal)