Observation Sector 55

TESS Observation Sector 55 is comprised of observations made during orbits 117 and 118 of the TESS mission. Observations extend from August 5 through September 1, 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	307.866	37.646	24.537	325.8	54.0
Camera 1	322.030	4.058	109.247	325.8	18.0
Camera 2	313.407	26.595	111.575	325.8	42.0
Camera 3	300.401	48.348	-60.346	325.8	66.0
Camera 4	270.004	66.565	-34.230	71.0	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 55

During Sector 55, 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.