I wanted a way to quickly see some info about a star based on it's TICID, so I made this tool.
Maybe someone else will find it useful
pip install ticinfo to use
% toco 441420236 ID ra dec pmRA pmDEC eclong eclat Tmag Vmag Kmag Teff rad mass d --------- ---------- -------- ------ ------ ---------- ---------- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- -------- ------ 441420236 311.289718 -31.3409 281.42 -359.9 305.309919 -12.822828 6.76 8.81 4.53 nan 0.698009 0.662074 9.7221 Target name: V* AU Mic The target is in constellation Microscopiumif you just have coordiantes you can use
% toco 311.289718 -31.3409 ID ra dec pmRA pmDEC eclong eclat Tmag Vmag Kmag Teff rad mass d --------- ---------- -------- ------ ------ ---------- ---------- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- -------- ------ 441420236 311.289718 -31.3409 281.42 -359.9 305.309919 -12.822828 6.76 8.81 4.53 nan 0.698009 0.662074 9.7221 Target name: V* AU Mic The target is in constellation Microscopiumor, if you know the name of the source you can use
% toco au mic ID ra dec pmRA pmDEC eclong eclat Tmag Vmag Kmag Teff rad mass d --------- ---------- -------- ------ ------ ---------- ---------- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- -------- ------ 441420236 311.289718 -31.3409 281.42 -359.9 305.309919 -12.822828 6.76 8.81 4.53 nan 0.698009 0.662074 9.7221 Target name: V* AU Mic The target is in constellation MicroscopiumYou are able to find out whether there is TESS data available in the archive for any target by using the --stored flag, or -s for short.
% toco L 98-59 -s ID ra dec pmRA pmDEC eclong eclat Tmag Vmag Kmag Teff rad mass d --------- ---------- ------- ----- ------- ---------- ---------- ---- ----- ---- ------ ------- -------- ------- 307210830 124.531756 -68.313 94.77 -340.47 203.322782 -76.813828 9.41 11.68 7.1 3429.0 0.31416 0.292836 10.6194 Target name: L 98-59 The target is in constellation Volans FFI data at MAST for sectors: [1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] 2-min data at MAST for sectors: [2, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] 20-s data at MAST for sectors: []You are able to find out whether there the target will be observable in the next TESS cycle using the --future flag, or -f for short.
% toco L 98-59 -f The target is in constellation Volans ID ra dec plx Tmag Vmag Kmag Teff rad mass --------- --------- ------- ----- ---- ----- ---- ------ ------- -------- 307210830 124.53176 -68.313 94.14 9.41 11.68 7.1 3429.0 0.31416 0.292836 Future: Will be observable in Cycle 7 sectors: [88 89 90 96]