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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En revisión

Poor alignment betweeen HST outreach and Gaia FPR

Becky Brown hace 2 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 2 años 1

I have noticed poor alignment between the Gaia Focus Product Release catalogue of Omega Cen and the HST Outreach image in the same region. Can this be fixed?

Image 115

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En revisión

"Publications" not working/Sat shadows in ESAsky

Dakota hace 2 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 2 años 1

Today I can't seem to get the "Publications" result to yield anything. Its hung up in an endless loading cycle. I've cleared cookies, caches, switched browsers. There also appear to be some strange shadows and tinting that look to be being caused by externals on a satellite.


GALJ2000GALJG223.5904988 -08.6562613FoV: 9.6° X 4.8°DSS2 color ; is one such example.

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COMPLETADO

Identify an object by tapping on it

phil wilkes2 hace 2 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 2 años 1

If just browsing the sky, I have found some interesting looking objects but cannot see an easy way to identify them within EsaSky

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En revisión

URL sharing not working correctly

Richard Hendricks hace 2 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 2 años 1

Hello, trying to share some closeups of the new JWST image, and the URL does not work.  For example 

https://sky.esa.int/esasky/?target=83.78707943000983%20-5.410806620155577&hips=2MASS+color+JHK&fov=0.002343707326783105&cooframe=J2000&sci=false&lang=en&jwst_image=webb_orionnebula_shortwave


should return


Image 110

but instead it returns

Image 112

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Respuestas

Milliquas

Matilija University hace 2 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 2 años 1

I have not yet found the display function in ESA Sky which allows us to display known and imaged Quasars, AGN and Candidates.

From the 1.5 Million or so in our database to date. Viz the Million Quasars (Milliquas) catalog, v7.10, 15 April 2023

https://quasars.org/milliquas.htm

How do we toggle/display all known, imaged, Quasars for viewing and exploring in ESA Sky?

Or Open Clusters, Globular Clusters, Dwarf Galaxies, Galaxies, etc.?

Thank you. I was not able to get any assistance from the SDSS for viewing the imaged Quasars in the Catalog


Millennium Twain

member of the ESA Gaia Research Community

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En revisión

Search for more than one object

Nuria Álvarez Crespo hace 2 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 2 años 3

Hi,

I use ESASky to prepare my observations in telescopes, and it would be really good to have the option to search for more than one object, for instance to measure the angular distance between both of them.

Thanks,

Nuria

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Planeado

define overlays (e.g. cone search regions) via URL parameters

Astro-COLIBRI hace 2 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 2 años 3

Hi,

it would be great if you could add optional paramters to the URL that allow to define sky regions around the central position. This would allow to load ESASky centered on a position (e.g. the best fit location of a new, possibly transient, source) AND show the uncertainty of this best fit position. This is exremely helpful to find possible MWL counterparts to the new source.

In Aladin Lite this feature is available via the use of overlays directly in the URL. An example (defining a circular region of radius 1.5deg): 

https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/?overlays=[{ "type": "graphic", "name": "uncertainty", "color": "darkgrey", "lineWidth": 4, "items": [ { "type": "circle", "ra": 288.4037, "dec": 0.3537, "radius": 1.5 } ]}]&target=19 13 36.89+0 21 13.32&fov=63.4675

Thanks a lot for your great work on ESASky!

Fabian (on behalf of the Astro-COLIBRI team)

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Solucionado

Gaia Proper Motion display formats

Andy Pollock hace 2 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 2 años 2

The format of Gaia DR3 columns has changed recently as shown in the attached screenshot so that, for example, "Proper Motion in RA" is shown in the HH MM SS format usual for RA proper. This doesn't make much sense and I don't think it's me. The same applies to "Proper Motion in Dec" and both their errors.

Screenshot 2023-05-02 at 16.10.25.png

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En revisión

Source error regions

Andy Pollock hace 2 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 2 años 1

It would be very useful at least to have an option to plot catalogue sources with symbols the size of the error region (or source extent) . For instance, when comparing XMM and Chandra source lists of the same region, this would give a good idea of how well they agree.

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Planeado

how can I get objects names over the sky pictures?

adriano palenga hace 2 años actualizado por Deborah Baines hace 2 años 1