Observation Sector 86

TESS Observation Sector 86 is comprised of observations made during orbits 179 and 180 of the TESS mission. Observations extend from November 21 through December 18, 2024. 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	42.674	75.893	32.581	71.6	55.5
Camera 1	67.714	41.598	100.108	72.5	19.5
Camera 2	58.007	64.951	108.059	72.0	43.5
Camera 3	344.133	82.458	0.328	70.7	67.5
Camera 4	270.857	64.869	71.998	282.2	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 86

During Sector 86, 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.