Observation Sector 61

TESS Observation Sector 61 is comprised of observations made during orbits 129 and 130 of the TESS mission. Observations extend from January 18 through February 12, 2023. 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	118.045	-36.090	162.220	132.1	-55.5
Camera 1	128.388	-1.390	-104.290	131.2	-19.5
Camera 2	122.048	-24.595	-105.747	131.7	-43.5
Camera 3	112.662	-47.406	68.617	132.9	-67.5
Camera 4	89.063	-68.257	48.231	281.5	-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 61

During Sector 61, 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.