astronomy

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'm studying geosat flares (link, link) and want to have a better idea of the cone of darkness that is created at a given distance.

Describe the solution you'd like
I want to select an object (satellite, moon, even planet) and see the

@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

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