Would it be possible to add the PanSTARRS DR1 color map from CDS (http://alasky.u-strasbg.fr/Pan-STARRS/DR1/color-i-r-g/) to the tool? It seems to me that it has a wide sky coverage and substantially better image quality than DSS-2 so it would be great to be able to use it as optical background for most investiations in the tool, although unfortuantely it is not available.

Hi,

Congratulations on the tool. I find it very very useful.

I recently discovered a huge list of HiPS maps produced by the Centre de Donnees Astronomiques from Strasbourg (https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/hips/list) and I wondered whether it would be possible to load any of those maps in ESASky by providing the URL of the HiPS, as listed in the website or in any other even easier way. That would allow a lot more discoveries to be made using those maps, which currently only can be seen in Aladin Desktop I think.

The EXOSAT image of Kepler's supernova only visible in certain zoom levels. Check it yourself:

sky.esa.int/?target=262.6499%20-21.482286111111108&hips=EXOSAT-LE&fov=7.615429176084551&cooframe=J2000&sci=true&lang=en

I would like to ask if it is possible to have cut outs with EDDIE service in galactic coordinates? I'm trying to obtain Herschel observation of galactic plane. 

Thank you!

While exploring the publications in a region I realised that it would be fantastic if the syze of the symbols with the publications feature could scale with the number of papers each source has about. There are many sources with just one publication and it is usually very useful to identify visually quickly which are the most discussed sources in a given field, since that typically would determine what do we know about the region as a whole.

The FoV of one Chandra observation (OBSID:6566) is so weird.

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Hi guys,

No matter how much I love the publications feature in ESASky, I have noticed that it really gets hard to figure out quickly what has been published about a source unless you really go through the full list of papers, so I wondered whether it would be possible to create a word-cloud figure out of the titles, authors and abstracts of the papers found for a given source and show it to the users to give them a visual impression about what the literature says about that source (maybe as a tooltip on top of a academic hat icon in the sky?). I know that ADS does these wordclouds with collections of papers so there might be libraries that allow to create these word-clouds fast with a bunch of text as input..

Many thanks again for the great work. Everyone I show the application to loves it. 8)

Becky

The GaiaDR2 Source Names are so long that all my programs can only deal with them as strings. In ESASky 3.4 they were displayed correctly in full length in the calatog window but not on the popup when clicking on a star. Now with the updated version the correct name is neither shown in the catalog view nor in the pop window. The Name in the catalog window has nothing to do with the source name. Where can I find to correct Gaia names? As an example my target GaiaDR2 0530685166960018816 is shown in the popup as 530685166960018800 and in the catalog as 3 704 192. What does that number even mean?

Typing RA as 14.4 and 014.4 sends user to two very different placess on the sky. EsaSky correctly interprets 014.4 and incorrectly 14.4. Obviously, most people (all?) will not type 014.4 but will type it as 14.4. Also, most catalogs have coordinates this way!  This will lead to countless and serious mistakes by students and also researchers.

It seems that this has been a problem for >6 months (at least it was reported that long ago). If this is not possible to fix, for some reason, a BIG WARNING MESSAGE IN RED needs to be placed on top of the main EsaSky page to prevent users from making many frustrating mistakes.

Thank you,

Oleg Kargaltsev