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.
Please suggest and vote on feature requests below. Before adding a new suggestion, use the search function to see if the idea has already been posted. Please include links to relevant repositories and existing issues in the description of the feature request. Also consider including links to code or images demonstrating the requested functionality.
You can also use this forum to report bugs or request small improvements to existing functionality.
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Uploading user tables
It would really be great, if we can upload our own user tables to use beside the catalogues that are available online. It would significantly speed up the work of surveying ESA Sky for specific types of objects. This is particularly useful for those of us that are working on Gaia objects.
SIMBAD search results
On clicking the SIMBAD search icon, in my case under a Gaia DR3 source, the result is unexpectedly downloaded in a text file called "simbad.txt" rather than displayed in a new browser window as used to be the case and is still so with all the other icons NED et al.
Cannot upload target list
I cannot upload a target list in the usual format. I get the menu when I click the corresponding button, open the file browser when I click on "Upload target list" and I can select the file, but is never loaded. I am using Firefox 106.0.1 on Mac OS 10.15.7, but tried also Chrome 107.0.5304.87 with the same result, and also one of my students tried in front of me (not sure which OS and browser) with no success. We were
I cannot find CHEOPS data for CoRoT-9
I cannot find the CHEOPS data for CoRoT-9, which is still in the CHEOPS archive and should in principle be also in ESASky.
Curious as to what this is..
Find the hidden gems feature
Next idea for ESASky: "Find the hidden gems" a recommendation function proposing sources of a certain type which have (a) few or no publications and (b) significant coverage by archival data.
The sky appears to hide the top left search icons in Safari 15.4
Hi,
I just noticed that the search icons are hidden when I open the Sky map. Only if I completely zoom out they appear again. I am using Safari 15.4
Sharing link does not keep the HST outreach image anymore
I visited a nice HST outreach image, and then clicked on the share button to copy the URL but when I paste it in another browser I do not see the HST outreach image anymore. This used to work before I am not mistaken..
No object names available, and www.cosmos.esa.int help function is not working, offline.
Zooming in and clicking or double-clicking on an object (viz. when viewing M87) does not result in the name, or any name, being displayed. Right-clicking also does not yield a name, only a list of catalogs to consult for the area.
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