astronomy

@embray or @Iamsoto , please correct me if I misunderstood. This is from astropy/astropy#11015 (comment) and is an independent issue as stated in astropy/astropy#11046 (comment) .

Also see: #11004

Description

This little branch adds an interesting "wow" effect by not blanking frames. You can configure a key

We could look into using the diskcache package to cache MAST search operations:

https://pypi.org/project/diskcache/

The package is a disk-based key-value store which makes it easy to specify an expiration time for each entry. This would allow us to e.g. cache search queries for 24 hours, which would significantly speed up searches across different Python processes, whilst largely avoiding

The python implementation of leapfrog does not make use of the fact that drifts can be combined when not storing output, causing it to be slower than necessary. Comparing to the C implementation, it also appears to not be as precise.