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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Planned

some useful features that could be added

Oleg Kargaltsev 5 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 5 years ago 3

Geat tool! Improved by a lot lately. However, these would make it even more useful:

1. Being able to adjust the contrast and brightness in of the images in an easy way

2. Allow for Gaussian smoothing of the displayed part of the image

2. Overlay multiwavelength images with different transparency and coloring options.

3. Adding images from new optical/NIR surveys (DEC, PanStarrs, VPHAS+,...)

4. Scale bar (in the angular distance units) in the bottom corner

5. The obvious way to display Simbad objects. Currently, this sort of can be done by clicking "Explore publications..." but this does not look the same as Simbad button to click on

Oleg Kargaltsev


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Under review

Double HST Images

Pedro Gómez Alvarez 5 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 5 years ago 6

Sometimes HST Images appear as double images. Not sure if they are two images with different WCS or the same image repeated.

For example see HST ACS at 10:01:20.78 +55:53:49

Screenshot attached

Image 80

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Fixed

the publications sources do ont update on new fields of view

Becky Brown 6 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 5 years ago 3

I wanted to visualize publications in several sources from a target list so I clicked on the publications toggle button and then started the spiral galaxies target list but when I moved from one galaxy to the next,the publications would only display if I click twice on the publications button in each field. This obviously limits a lot the exploration of data that I can do and I understand it is not the way the toggle button should work. Am I doing something wrong?

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Completed

FOV indicator in top left corner

Sebastien Guillot 6 years ago updated by Becky Brown 5 years ago 7

Hi,


If I rescale the size of the web browser window (without zooming in/out), I would expect the FOV value in the top left corner to change since I am viewing a different portion of the sky, but this is not the case. So, it is not readily obvious what this FOV value corresponds to. Perhaps being able to toggle on/off a circle with diameter equal to the FOV value would be easy to implement.

Thanks

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Fixed

Colour palette possibly works in an incorrect way

JareelSkaj 6 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 5 years ago 4

Reproduce:

  • Optical - DSS2 color - change Color Pallete from Native to Greyscale

Expected result: Greyscale equivalent of the current, color image image

Actual result: White screen

If that's a feature, not a bug, I'd recommend changing Color Pallete drop-down to gray-out options which do not have any actual data in them.

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Completed

Export option for the targets list

JareelSkaj 6 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 5 years ago 3

Right now there's an option to import targets list. It has no documented format, which is a big issue for random newcomers that would like to use this feature. It'd be great to export one of the existing target lists as an example and to use as a base for custom lists.

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Completed

Default views

JareelSkaj 6 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 5 years ago 3

Default view for each wavelength should be the most representative/appealing.

eg. right now if you switch to Radio you get a white blob, pictured below. Until you switch color palette into Native - it stays as a blob. That's super-confusing.

I'd also recommend changing color palette into a drop-down, cause UX-wise it's weird to have 2 selectors in drop-downs and a third one hidden under a button. Initially I thought it's just an icon to signify that a different "select a sky" drop-down will have a different color palletes...

Image 46

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Completed

Add the next catalogues: IRAS and DENIS catalogues

pgalindo 6 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 2 years ago 4
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Under review

SAMP?

Stéphane Erard 6 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 5 years ago 3

Hello

I've just tested the search capacities for solar system images. They are very nice in the interface, however I can't send selected images to Aladin (or ImageJ, with plugin) via SAMP - the image arrive in the application, but is not plotted ("repaint" error message in Aladin).  Am I missing something?

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Completed

TypeError with astroquery ans ESASky

ABremond 6 years ago updated by Henrik 6 years ago 1

Hello

when I try the scipt found on ESASky I get a Ty peError:

maps['XMM-OM-OPTICAL']['observation_id', 'instrument', 'filter', 'duration'].pprint()  gives this

TypeError: TableLists can only be indexed with the named keys and integers.

Could you help me ?

Many Thanks