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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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.
Constellation boundaries
Would be nice to have a view option to overlay constellation names and borders along with the co-ordinate grid.
Could you add the Panstarrs sky-map to ESASky ?
Would it be possible to add the PanSTARRS DR1 color map from CDS (http://alasky.u-strasbg.fr/Pan-STARRS/DR1/color-i-r-g/) to the tool? It seems to me that it has a wide sky coverage and substantially better image quality than DSS-2 so it would be great to be able to use it as optical background for most investiations in the tool, although unfortuantely it is not available.
Would it be possible to add any HiPS map from any URL to the tool?
Hi,
Congratulations on the tool. I find it very very useful.
I recently discovered a huge list of HiPS maps produced by the Centre de Donnees Astronomiques from Strasbourg (https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/hips/list) and I wondered whether it would be possible to load any of those maps in ESASky by providing the URL of the HiPS, as listed in the website or in any other even easier way. That would allow a lot more discoveries to be made using those maps, which currently only can be seen in Aladin Desktop I think.
EXOSAT image of Kepler's supernova only visible in certain zoom levels
The EXOSAT image of Kepler's supernova only visible in certain zoom levels. Check it yourself:
sky.esa.int/?target=262.6499%20-21.482286111111108&hips=EXOSAT-LE&fov=7.615429176084551&cooframe=J2000&sci=true&lang=en
EDDIE Cut-out Image Service
I would like to ask if it is possible to have cut outs with EDDIE service in galactic coordinates? I'm trying to obtain Herschel observation of galactic plane.
Thank you!
Change the size of the publication icons proportionally to the number of papers for each source
While exploring the publications in a region I realised that it would be fantastic if the syze of the symbols with the publications feature could scale with the number of papers each source has about. There are many sources with just one publication and it is usually very useful to identify visually quickly which are the most discussed sources in a given field, since that typically would determine what do we know about the region as a whole.
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