Hoverscope

🔭 Hoverscope - Telescope & Satellite Information at Your Fingertips

Tired of Googling telescope specifications while reading astronomy papers? Hoverscope shows you everything you need to know with a simple hover.

✨ HOW IT WORKS Just hover over any telescope or satellite name on arXiv (e.g., JWST, Hubble, Chandra, ALMA, Gaia) and instantly see: • Launch date • Wavelength coverage • Survey area • Location (orbit or ground) • Current operational status • Brief mission description

🎯 PERFECT FOR • Astronomy researchers reading papers • Graduate students learning about instruments • Anyone exploring arXiv astronomy sections

📚 INCLUDED TELESCOPES 30+ major telescopes and instruments including: • Space telescopes: JWST, Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, Kepler, TESS, Gaia, Euclid • Ground-based: ALMA, VLA, SDSS, Vera Rubin Observatory (LSST) • Missions: Planck, Fermi, XMM-Newton, and more • JWST instruments: MIRI, NIRSpec, NIRCam

🔄 ALWAYS UP-TO-DATE The database can be easily updated with new telescopes and missions.

🎨 FEATURES • Clean, unobtrusive tooltips • Dark mode support • Works on paper abstracts and full PDFs • No data collection - completely private • Lightweight and fast

🌟 OPEN TO CONTRIBUTIONS Want to add a telescope? Found outdated information? Contributions welcome!

Perfect for anyone who reads astronomy papers and wants quick access to telescope specifications without breaking their reading flow.