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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FOV indicator in top left corner
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
Colour palette possibly works in an incorrect way
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.
Export option for the targets list
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.
Default views
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...
SAMP?
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?
TypeError with astroquery ans ESASky
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
download of Chandra FITS files is not working
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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