Year 7 Observations

Observations during Year 7 comprises Sectors 84-96.  Year 7 will begin with three sectors in the Northern ecliptic hemisphere (Sectors 84-86), followed by a four sectors in the Southern ecliptic hemisphere.  Sectors 91 and 92 will be used to take first observations of the 120° section of the ecliptic that has not been observed to date. Year 7 observations will finish with four Southern pointings.

As in Year 6, the ecliptic latitude at which the spacecraft boresight is pointed will be shifted by 1.5° and the instrument field-of-view will be rotated by 1.5° in order that regions of the sky not covered in the first four years of the mission can be observed (these regions are caused by the gaps between CCDs in each camera, and they are most prominently seen at 18° and 54° latitude and at the ecliptic poles).

Links to Sector pages:  84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96.

The tables below contains the details of TESS spacecraft orientation for Year 7. Columns are Sector number, Start and End dates of Sector, then (RA, dec, roll) in degrees (J2000) of the spacecraft and four camera boresights. Note: These values are provisional and may be changed, although there are currently no plans to do so.