ESASky User Forum / Whiteboard

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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

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Fixed

download of Chandra FITS files is not working

Becky Brown 7 years ago updated 6 years ago 3

Hi ESASky team,

I am trying to download FITS files from Chandra imaging observations of M88 and I get a file called chaser_ftp_retrieve_file.cgi instead of the FITS file I expected. I think this used to work in the earlier version..

Thanks in advance if you can fix it ..

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Declined

Hz 2 / continuation

Antonio Talavera 7 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 5 years ago 3 1 duplicate
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Not a bug

Cannot add comment to existing item

Antonio Talavera 7 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 5 years ago 1
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Fixed

"Explore observations for this region" does not work if the object is not in the center of the image FOV

Nora Loiseau 7 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 5 years ago 4

Example:

Search: NGC6221, click on "Explore observations for this region". The XMM observations are not shown until one expands the FoV up to about 24' , which is the 2xdistance from NGC 6221 to the center of the XMM observations (e.g. 0690580101)

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Planned

Would it be possible to have access to the Chandra spectra as well?

Becky Brown 7 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 6 years ago 3

Would it be possible to have access to the Chandra spectral products as well as to the XMM-Newton spectral products?

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Not a bug

Filtering the publications does not update the symbols on image

Becky Brown 7 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 6 years ago 3

I tried looking for publications on a crowded region like e.g. M31, and when I filtered the list of publications by e.g. journal, I got just 6 publications, but the number of academic hats in the display were not modified, while I would have expected that, just like with the observation footprints, only those objects from the filtered observations would have remained.. Is it possible to do that?

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Completed

copy the coordinates of cursor position in the sky

Becky Brown 7 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 2 years ago 2

It would be great to be able to right-click anywhere in the sky in ESASky, and get the option to copy the coordinates to the clipboard to be used afterwards. That is possible with Aladin Desktop and it is an essential tool if one wants to follow up on something interesting they have seen in the images..

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Under review

Cannot retrieve all the Herschel PACS 70 micron images from a region

Becky Brown 7 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 6 years ago 1

I want to retrieve only the Herschel PACS 70 micron images from a region of the sky, but if i search for Herschel I get all the PACS observations in bundles with the 70 and the 160 microns.. So I need to retrieve them all and then separate with a custom script the 70 micron from the other files.. Is there a way to be able to download easily Herschel FITS files for just one band directly?