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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Projection in 7.0

Casey 6 months ago updated by Deborah Baines 3 months ago 3

Hi, hope you're well. I have a question about the new default projection in 7.0. Is there a way to toggle between the new projection (from the inside of a sphere) and the old one (from the outside of a sphere)? Thanks!

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Not a bug

overlayFootprints over Javascript API ignores color

patricio cubillos 10 months ago updated by Deborah Baines 10 months ago 2

Hi,

I'm drawing a circle footprint around my target of interest, and it seems that the Javascript command is ignoring my color input. Below is an example of a command I'm sending.  I'm always getting a red circle no matter what I set as color.

{'event': 'overlayFootprints',
'content': {'overlaySet': {'type': 'FootprintListOverlay',
'overlayName': 'visit splitting distance',
'cooframe': 'J2000',
'color': '#15B01A',
'lineWidth': 5,
'skyObjectList': [{'name': 'visit splitting distance',
'id': 1,
'stcs': 'CIRCLE ICRS 315.02596610 -5.09485700 0.0222',
'ra_deg': '315.02596610',
'dec_deg': '-5.09485700'}]}}}

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How to select/deselect a row in a catalog from a Javascript command?

patricio cubillos 10 months ago updated by Deborah Baines 6 months ago 4

Hi,

Is it possible to select or de-select rows in a catalog thought the Javascript API?

Ultimately, I want to highlight targets as the user clicks into a list of the entries of the catalog (which is in a separate HTML component)

Thanks!

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How to set the columns' units in an overlayCatalogue JS call?

patricio cubillos 10 months ago updated by Deborah Baines 6 months ago 3

Hi,
I'm creating a catalog with overlayCatalogue through the Javascript API. Is there a way to set the units for the columns?

Thanks!

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Answered

Is it possible to open all HIPS available for the current view automatically?

Lukasz Wyrzykowski 10 months ago updated 10 months ago 2

Now I need to go through all wavelengths and surveys to check which ones are there. I would like to automatically check which HIPS are available for the current location and be able to load them all in the HIPS list. 

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Please make available for download the full 24k x 24x resolution images from Euclid

Jerry L 11 months ago updated by Deborah Baines 11 months ago 3

Hi, 
  ESASky is great, but I prefer to zoom and pan on my own from a full resolution image file on my computer. Could you please make available the full resolution files available for every Euclid image? And if not, why not? Thanks

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Started

Add the eROSITA largest ever Xray space survey!

Fanfan 1 year ago updated 1 year ago 3

https://www.mpe.mpg.de/eROSITA

eROSITA is the best xray space survey ever by more than an order of magnitude

You should include it for democratizing science progress :)

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Fixed

Dashboard in the External Data Centres

d0ct0r 1 year ago updated by Deborah Baines 4 months ago 3

Hi all! I can't see the MAST data on the Dashboard in the External Data Centres.

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Circle footprints via Javascript API

srcejon 1 year ago updated by Deborah Baines 1 year ago 1

Currently, the Javascript API docs give an example of creating a polygon footprint. E.g:

{event: 'overlayFootprints', content:{'overlaySet': {'type': 'FootprintListOverlay', 'overlayName': 'test footprints', 'cooframe': 'J2000', 'color': 'red', 'lineWidth': 5, 'skyObjectList': [{'name': 'test footprint1', 'id': 1, 'stcs': 'Polygon J2000 187.33912535049 -62.6616054228651 187.343512531474 -62.7116786437002 187.235239903703 -62.7136263115712 187.231036216914 -62.6635488923945', 'ra_deg': '187.287228500645', 'dec_deg': '-62.6876148176328'}]}}}

Is it possible to create a circle (other than by defining it as a polygon)? 


Are there any more docs for the stcs parameter?

Is the ESASky source code available somewhere?

Thanks.

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Gaia propermotion direction

fargoing 1 year ago updated by Deborah Baines 1 year ago 1

I have noted that some targets are observed with large proper motion from Gaia DR3. But I am not clear what's the direction of the proper motion. I notice that some are marked with arrows and some are not. So how can I know the direction of the proper motion for those targets.