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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Color bar with values?

Daniel Pfenniger hace 7 años actualizado por ESASky Team hace 5 años 3

Colored maps are pretty but without color bars with corresponding numerical values the scientific utility is low.    Could these informations be added please ?

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Solucionado

Error in image of NGC 2244

John Murrell hace 7 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 6 años 4

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) !!!

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Hole in the DSS sky !

John Murrell hace 7 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 5 años 5

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)

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Under Spectra it would be nice to show EPIC spectra of the catalogue sources

Nora Loiseau hace 7 años actualizado por Bruno Merín hace 7 años 2

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.

Respuesta
Bruno Merín hace 7 años

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.

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COMPLETADO

Specify coordinate format requirements for target lists

Sarah Kendrew hace 7 años actualizado por Bruno Merín hace 7 años 3

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.

Respuesta
Bruno Merín hace 7 años

The documentation has been fixed to explain how to set the coordinate format for target lists.

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En revisión

In Chrome, moving mouse drags the image

michael clarage hace 7 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 5 años 8

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.

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Make this Userecho more easy to find, should be possible to click it from the main panel

Nora Loiseau hace 7 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 6 años 2

Users that want to comment something do not find how to do it

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COMPLETADO

Allow decimal format of coodinate

Ming Yang hace 7 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 4 años 2

is it possible also to show decimal format of coodinate, which is much more convenient in some cases?

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Solucionado

Right ascension format

Andy Pollock hace 7 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 4 años 4

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".

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Are there plans for an API for ESASky?

Sarah Kendrew hace 7 años actualizado por ESASky Team hace 5 años 2

this would allow programmatic access to the tool & the data, for example to use ESASky inside a jupyter notebook.

Respuesta
anonymous hace 7 años
That exists already: we have an astroquery module in astropy that allows you to do exactly that already. See the documentation here:


https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc/esasky-astroquery-module


and a couple of video tutorials here:


https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc/esasky-how-to