Observation Sector 87

TESS Observation Sector 87 is comprised of observations made during orbits 181 and 182 of the TESS mission. Observations extend from December 18, 2024, through January 14, 2025. 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	97.963	-32.393	175.917	101.9	-55.5
Camera 1	100.366	3.535	-93.454	101.0	-19.5
Camera 2	98.868	-20.420	-93.679	101.5	-43.5
Camera 3	96.776	-44.357	85.176	102.7	-67.5
Camera 4	91.492	-68.198	80.684	251.4	-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 87

During Sector 87, 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.