Overview of the PLATO multi-camera design. Left: Schematics of the PLATO spacecraft consisting of the payload module (with colour indication of the telescope groups) and the service module (bus). Credit: ESA/ATG medialab. Right: On-sky FOV of PLATO shown for a pointing towards the Long-duration Observation Phase (LOP) south in equatorial coordinates. The increasing darker shade of blue illustrates the increasing N-CAM overlap of n_CAM ∈ {6, 12, 18, 24} (also indicated in the white boxes). The coloured dots show the pointing of each N-CAM group, cf. the left-hand plot. The magenta star indicates the pointing of the two F-CAMs, which is parallel to the pointing of the platform, while the magenta circle shows the (camera-only) F-CAM FOV. Data courtesy: Montalto et al. (2021) and Pertenais et al. (2021).