Hoverscope

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🔭 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 Found outdated information?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.