ESASky User Forum / Whiteboard
Welcome to the ESASky user forum! The aim of this forum is to have a place to collect feature requests from users, allow conversations between users and gauge the Astronomy community's priorities related to the ESASky application. We welcome requests for the ESASky, its documentation, its ways of interacting with the community, and any functionality which you think would be widely useful to the Astronomy community.
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Error in image of NGC 2244
One of the random target shows NGC2244 (an open cluster in the Rosette Nebula) according to the description but the image that is shown is of the Antenna Galaxies (NGC 4038/NGC 4039) !!!
Hole in the DSS sky !
If you load the URL sky.esa.int/?action=goto&target=208.36495%20-67.41694&hips=DSS2%20color&fov=0.6184503996975068&cooframe=J2000 there appears to be a hole in the DSS image in ESASky. It dissapears if you zoom out. This does not appear in Aladin Lite so appears to be a problem with ESASky - possibly missing Healpix tile ?
This is the position of Gaia18aod (aka Nova Circini 2018 (PNV J13532700-6725110)
Under Spectra it would be nice to show EPIC spectra of the catalogue sources
Many EPIC catalogue sources have associated spectra (and light curves) which would be very useful to show, and to offer the possibility to download together with their ancillary files.
Thanks Nora, indeed that is was in the list but did not have a ticket, so now I created one. We will let you know once this has been implemented.
Specify coordinate format requirements for target lists
Would it be possible to provide some example target lists that contain coordinates, or an explanation on the supported coordinate formats we can use in a target list? (e.g. hexagesimal, decimal, epoch, galactic vs ra/dec, etc). All the examples use named targets only.
The documentation has been fixed to explain how to set the coordinate format for target lists.
In Chrome, moving mouse drags the image
I am having browser functionality problems.
In Chrome, I cannot keep my image in place, because whenever I drag the mouse over the screen, the image pans as if I had the mouse clicked. So I cannot save my desired image.
In IE the dragging mouse does not pan the image, but the screenshot function does not work, no file is saved.
Make this Userecho more easy to find, should be possible to click it from the main panel
Users that want to comment something do not find how to do it
Allow decimal format of coodinate
is it possible also to show decimal format of coodinate, which is much more convenient in some cases?
Right ascension format
The right ascension of Gaia DR1 2067784619950643072 == Cyg OB2-8A, for example, is shown as 20h 33' 15.07". It should be 20h 33m 15.07s. The declination coordinate is not wrong but would look better, if this were possible, with a degree symbol rather than "d".
Are there plans for an API for ESASky?
this would allow programmatic access to the tool & the data, for example to use ESASky inside a jupyter notebook.
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc/esasky-astroquery-module
and a couple of video tutorials here:
Allow magnitude filtering in catalogues
It would be great to have filtering capability over the catalog results. In particular over the magnitude fields but it could be also useful to other fields. This would make ESASky much more useful at for example preparing observations...
Dear Pedro,
We are pleased to announced that the filtering functionality is already available in ESASky v2.0: which has been released today at http://sky.esa.int.
Best regards,
Bruno Merín
On behalf of the ESAC Science Data Centre
Customer support service by UserEcho
