astronomy

Description

As discussed in #1834 the Qt-based interface allows using the tab key to switch between GUI element

Describe the feature

The STEREO webpage has a handy figure showing where STEREO and other spacecraft are: https://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/where.shtml . Given the existing examples in the SunPy gallery it seems that this should be reproducible using SunPy.

Proposed solution

The solution would use a mix of existing examples that use the ability to get locations of spacecraft and planet

If a loop is in progress, set with scriptScheduler.loadScheduledScript(), then the "now" button in the time manager part of the GUI doesn't have expected behavior because the time immediately gets set back to whatever the loop says.

An easy fix would maybe be to call openspace.scriptScheduler.clear(); before openspace.time.setTime("now") on the button click

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

This keywoed appeared in IDL 8.5.2

@Jeanne-jw will work next days on that.