[AAVSO-HEN] Swift

[Dan Kaiser]

Arne, 

The press release states Swift has a large field of view.  How large, as
a percentage of the sky?

Dan

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:40:11 -0700, you wrote:

>The Swift mission has been added to the NASA main website:
>http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/main/index.html
>It states the current launch date is November 2.  This
>puts the first alerts sometime in December.  They are
>predicting about 2 localized bursts per week (100/yr,
>down from the optimistic 300/yr of earlier postings).
>So a slight slip, but not unexpected with all of the
>Florida hurricanes.  Nice that HETE is still active
>and getting good localizations of the interesting
>X-ray Flash (XRF) lower-energy bursts, keeping the
>big telescopes busy!
>Arne
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