Year 2 Observations

Observations during Year 2 comprised Sectors 14-26. During Year 2, the northern ecliptic hemisphere was observed. During sectors 17-23, the instrument boresight was pointed at +54° ecliptic latitude. During Sectors 14-16 and 24-26, the boresight was pointed at +85° ecliptic latitude, to avoid excessive contamination by stray Earth- and moonlight in cameras 1 and 2 in the nominal +54° orientation.
Links to Sector pages: 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.
The table below contains the details of TESS spacecraft orientation for Year 2. Columns are Sector number, Start and End dates of Sector, then (RA, dec, roll) in degrees (J2000) of the spacecraft and four camera boresights.
SectorDatesSpacecraftCamera 1Camera 2Camera 3Camera 4 
1407/18/19-08/15/19276.72, 62.48, 32.23 297.76, 29.19, 106.40 287.05, 51.83, 113.50 256.18, 71.57, 321.23 174.64, 71.30, 39.75
1508/15/19-09/11/19280.40, 64.07, 55.43 316.91, 35.57, 116.28 298.18, 55.90, 129.96 252.38, 68.63, 351.20 196.75, 60.86, 42.32
1609/11/19-10/07/19282.44, 66.14, 79.47 336.08, 44.14, 123.65 307.85, 61.55, 146.58 252.91, 65.50, 16.51 214.06, 51.57, 50.23
1710/07/19-11/02/19351.24, 57.85, 41.97 17.39, 26.89, 113.52 3.29, 48.23, 122.30 331.60, 65.56, 329.33 270.00, 66.57, 26.51
1811/02/19-11/27/1916.11, 67.96, 40.55 44.14, 35.61, 107.46 30.86, 57.93, 117.35 344.62, 75.00, 340.53 270.00, 66.56, 52.16
1911/27/19-12/24/1960.20, 76.23, 19.65 75.35, 40.85, 96.07 69.59, 64.62, 100.76 1.54, 85.31, 347.82 270.00, 66.56, 78.40
2012/24/19-01/21/20129.39, 75.25, 334.57 110.05, 40.33, 81.75 117.67, 63.91, 75.61 182.33, 83.58, 192.29 270.00, 66.56, 105.95
2101/21/20-02/18/20171.80, 65.19, 317.95 143.64, 33.45, 70.32 157.60, 55.40, 60.34 199.06, 72.30, 202.43 270.00, 66.56, 134.95
2202/18/20-03/18/20197.10, 53.74, 319.70 172.75, 22.78, 65.49 186.32, 44.03, 57.86 213.72, 61.95, 215.57 270.00, 66.56, 164.08
2303/18/20-04/16/20217.29, 43.81, 327.42 198.43, 11.69, 66.62 209.58, 33.41, 62.26 228.13, 53.47, 229.25 270.00, 66.56, 192.35
2404/16/20-05/13/20261.45, 63.12, 317.26 233.47, 31.76, 68.84 247.74, 53.46, 58.98 286.20, 70.30, 204.43 354.22, 66.46, 140.21
2505/13/20-06/08/20265.61, 61.94, 339.53 252.26, 27.06, 79.35 259.05, 50.49, 75.01 279.77, 72.71, 236.40 22.74, 76.64, 135.42
2606/08/20-07/04/20270.14, 61.56, 0.60 270.53, 25.56, 90.32 270.33, 49.56, 90.44 269.69, 73.56, 271.02 92.83, 82.43, 87.82
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