Observation Sector 72

TESS Observation Sector 72 is comprised of observations made during orbits 151 and 152 of the TESS mission. Observations extend from November 11 through December 7, 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	133.763	16.654	-105.970	131.5	-0.7
Camera 1	95.971	22.755	-2.784	95.5	-0.6
Camera 2	121.514	19.580	-12.146	119.5	-0.7
Camera 3	145.603	13.033	160.986	143.5	-0.7
Camera 4	168.289	4.412	157.491	167.5	-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 72

During Sector 72, 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.