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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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.
ESASky Javascript API in ReactJS
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?
ESASky in German
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.
Overlay my own equirectangular map as a sky layer
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.
Gaia EDR3 SIMBAD coordinate for SIMBAD
One of ESASky's many excellent features is the dialogue box shown for an object in a Gaia EDR3 catalogue overlay on some other sky which generates, for example, a SIMBAD query. The query generated e.g.
specifies coordinates to 3 significant figures. This is not enough to have the correct star at the top of the resultant list in a crowded field. Another couple of figures would probably do the trick.
Chandra X-ray Observatory table
While we're at it, one more little thing. In the Chandra X-ray Observatory table, the final column on the right is "Duration" which is in seconds rather than the ksec units shown in the column header.
Chandra X-ray Observatory Style
The line style is missing from the Chandra X-ray Observatory Style dialogue box and no field-of-view outlines appear. All the other imaging instruments I've tried are OK.
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