Observation Sector 76

TESS Observation Sector 76 is comprised of observations made during orbits 159 and 160 of the TESS mission. Observations extend from February 26 through March 26, 2024. 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	253.534	66.840	-83.358	170.0	83.5
Camera 1	196.641	45.814	55.910	171.3	47.5
Camera 2	226.620	62.855	31.099	171.0	71.5
Camera 3	283.197	65.337	159.424	353.3	84.5
Camera 4	319.884	50.404	127.802	351.8	60.5
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 76

During Sector 76, 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.