Observation Sector 97

TESS Observation Sector 97 is comprised of observations made during orbits 201 through 204 of the TESS mission. Observations extend from September 15 through November 9, 2025. Sector 97 is the first of two sectors that cover four orbits. 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	41.658	-41.845	-149.632	18.8	-54.0
Camera 1	24.133	-9.318	-67.564	18.8	-18.0
Camera 2	34.595	-31.259	-63.860	18.8	-42.0
Camera 3	51.451	-51.829	127.546	18.7	-66.0
Camera 4	90.001	-66.564	161.247	259.1	-90.0
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 97

During Sector 97, 12,000 stars will be observed at two-minute cadence, up to 3,000 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 posted on the Target List page as soon as they have been determined. The target list includes the camera and CCD on which the target can be found, TIC ID, RA, declination, and TESS magnitude.