The following links display images contributed by the project, MAST staff, or donated by users.
Project-defined Field of View
showing position of Kepler detector and nearby bright stars (in sexagesimal coordinates).
Derived Field of View
created by Rob Oiler from the Univsity of Maryland.
This plot shows the positions (in decimal degrees) of the ~6 million targets
from the Kepler Input Catalog,
considered to be on or near the Kepler detector as defined by the Kepler Characteristics
table for 2009.
The red area defines the region where targets are on the detector for all 4 seasons,
green are targets known to be on the detector for 1 to 3 seasons, and
black are targets near but never on the detector.
About half of the targets in the Kepler Input Catalog are outside this region
and not shown.
Search & Retrieval
