Observation Sector 46

TESS Observation Sector 46 is comprised of observations made during orbits 99 and 100 of the TESS mission. Observations extend from December 2 through December 30, 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	157.700	10.092	-111.594	155.6	0.7
Camera 1	121.929	20.777	-11.733	119.6	0.6
Camera 2	146.193	14.284	-19.155	143.6	0.7
Camera 3	168.899	5.513	156.880	167.6	0.7
Camera 4	190.924	-4.083	156.601	191.6	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 46

During Sector 46, 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.