Observation Sector 42

TESS Observation Sector 42 is comprised of observations made during orbits 91 and 92 of the TESS mission. Observations extend from August 20 through September 16, 2021. 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	13.014	6.334	-67.199	14.4	0.7
Camera 1	339.851	-7.883	22.336	338.4	0.6
Camera 2	1.960	1.595	23.568	2.4	0.7
Camera 3	24.267	10.835	-158.885	26.4	0.7
Camera 4	47.837	18.400	-164.927	50.4	0.6
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 42

During Sector 42, 20,000 stars are observed at two-minute cadence, 1000 at 20-second cadence, and full-frame images are collected every 10 minutes.

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.