Observation Sector 51

TESS Observation Sector 51 is comprised of observations made during orbits 109 and 110 of the TESS mission. Observations extend from April 22 through May 18, 2022. 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	239.426	35.233	-20.135	225.0	54.0
Camera 1	227.751	0.915	73.668	225.0	18.0
Camera 2	234.936	23.882	72.091	225.0	42.0
Camera 3	245.379	46.365	-114.045	225.0	66.0
Camera 4	270.003	66.563	-134.984	51.3	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 51

During Sector 51, 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.