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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Answered

Where is James web telescope

Anakin 2 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 2 years ago 1
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Fixed

I cannot find CHEOPS data for CoRoT-9

Bruno Merín 2 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 2 years ago 2

I cannot find the CHEOPS data for CoRoT-9, which is still in the CHEOPS archive and should in principle be also in ESASky.

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Answered

Curious as to what this is..

Twista 2 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 2 years ago 1

Can someone explain this? (copy and paste URL into browser), found this - what I can only describe as a texter mark, first found it using JWST, and then again using ESA Sky.

sky.esa.int/?target=83.77608318110488%209.516368499206646&hips=DSS2+color&fov=0.11545566465090484&cooframe=J2000&sci=true&lang=en

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Planned

Find the hidden gems feature

Bruno Merín 2 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 2 years ago 1

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.

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Fixed

The sky appears to hide the top left search icons in Safari 15.4

Salim Ansari 2 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 2 years ago 5

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

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Fixed

Sharing link does not keep the HST outreach image anymore

Bruno Merín 2 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 2 years ago 3

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..

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Answered

No object names available, and www.cosmos.esa.int help function is not working, offline.

Millennium Twain 2 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 2 years ago 5

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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Answered

ESASky Javascript API in ReactJS

Nico Vermaas 2 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 2 years ago 3

I am building a portal for ASTRON Data and I am trying to embed the ESASky Javascript API in an ReactJS application?
Has anybody ever tried that and has some examples?

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Under review

ESASky in German

Salim Ansari 2 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 2 years ago 1

Hi,


Are there any plans in translating ESASky to German? I am planning to introduce ESASky in Austria, and it would tremendously help, if the interface would be in German.

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Under review

Overlay my own equirectangular map as a sky layer

Jhmadden 2 years ago updated by Deborah Baines 2 years ago 1

I was wondering if it would be possible to add a way to upload my own sky maps to view them as a layer among the different sky options. I deal with a lot of equirectangular maps that are in either ra/dec or galactic coordinates that would be interesting to see along with surveys and even to quickly investigate overlapping areas of interest. If there was a simple option to upload a jpg or png when creating a new row under sky select and specifying if it is in ra/dec or galactic that would be amazing. I would use it to plot sky models but I imagine others could use it to plot points of interest, observing footprints, or their own images. For example, in figure 9 of this paper there are some maps that (if plotted fully 90 to -90) could be simply mapped into ESA sky. If all maps are required to be full-sky as a standard it would likely be easier to integrate.