Observation Sector 59

TESS Observation Sector 59 is comprised of observations made during orbits 135 and 136 of the TESS mission. Observations extend from November 26 through December 23, 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	52.975	77.175	26.512	76.4	55.5
Camera 1	73.728	42.228	97.690	77.3	19.5
Camera 2	66.085	65.845	104.014	76.8	43.5
Camera 3	344.028	84.293	4.861	75.5	67.5
Camera 4	271.189	64.903	76.490	287.0	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 59

During Sector 59, 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.