Observation Sector 56

TESS Observation Sector 56 is comprised of observations made during orbits 119 and 120 of the TESS mission. Observations extend from September 1 through September 30, 2022. The regions of the sky observed are shown at right.

Pointing

The orientation of the spacecraft and camera boresights are given in the table below.

Boresight	RA	Dec	Roll	Ecliptic Longitude	Ecliptic Latitude
Spacecraft	324.278	46.345	36.252	351.7	55.5
Camera 1	345.364	14.958	114.995	352.6	19.5
Camera 2	333.052	36.296	120.430	352.1	43.5
Camera 3	311.763	55.430	-43.992	350.9	67.5
Camera 4	266.081	65.859	-3.519	202.1	88.3
All coordinates are degrees (J2000)

Map of TESS camera fields-of-view in ecliptic coordinates. Camera 1 is red, camera 2 is magenta, camera 3 is blue, camera 4 is green. The field of camera 4 looks distorted because it is centered on the ecliptic pole. The thin black line is the ecliptic; the thick black line is the galactic plane.

Map of TESS camera fields-of-view in celestial coordinates. Camera 1 is red, camera 2 is magenta, camera 3 is blue, camera 4 is green. The thin black line is the ecliptic; the thick black line is the galactic plane.

Targets for Sector 56

During Sector 56, 12,000 stars will be observed at two-minute cadence, up to 2,000 stars at 20-second cadence, and full-frame images will be collected every 200 seconds.

The list of targets observed at two-minute cadence are given on the Target List page. The target list includes the camera and CCD on which the target can be found, TIC ID, RA, declination, and TESS magnitude.