Observation Sector 79

TESS Observation Sector 79 is comprised of observations made during orbits 165 and 166 of the TESS mission. Observations extend from May 21 through June 18, 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	266.060	60.304	-12.491	252.5	83.5
Camera 1	258.013	24.738	83.225	253.8	47.5
Camera 2	262.167	48.515	80.691	253.5	71.5
Camera 3	274.360	71.850	-110.119	75.7	84.5
Camera 4	33.608	80.773	131.930	74.3	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 79

During Sector 79, 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.