The Hector Galaxy Survey will observe 15,000 galaxies during its lifetime. Targets have been selected from the Wide Area Vista Extragalactic Survey (WAVES) fields in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as well as 11 rich galaxy clusters.
In the WAVES-South region, the first year of the survey will concentrate on three 5×12 degree fields named G23, H01 and H03. In the WAVES-North region, we will concentrate on the SAMI fields G09, G12 and G15, expanding outwards in 1 degree strips of declination.
The galaxy fields for the first year of survey operations are shown below.
| Field | RA (degrees) | DEC (degrees) | Type |
| A0151 | 17.10920 | -15.40920 | Cluster |
| A3158 | 55.77040 | -53.65310 | Cluster |
| A3266 | 67.77460 | -61.44360 | Cluster |
| A3376 | 90.15290 | -40.03260 | Cluster |
| A3391 | 96.58590 | -53.69330 | Cluster |
| A3395 | 96.88000 | -54.43740 | Cluster |
| A3667 | 303.09170 | -56.81520 | Cluster |
| A3716 | 312.8600 | -52.70700 | Cluster |
| A2399 | 329.37260 | -7.796920 | Cluster |
| A0119 | 14.067150 | -1.255370 | Cluster |
| A0085 | 10.460211 | -9.303184 | Cluster |
| G09 | 135 | 0 | WAVES-North |
| G12 | 180 | 0 | WAVES-North |
| G15 | 225 | 0 | WAVES-North |
| G23 | 345 | -32.5 | WAVES-South |
| H01 | 15 | -30 | WAVES-South |
| H03 | 45 | -30 | WAVES-South |