Geert Barentsen

My intention has been to guarantee that a `LightCurve` object *always* contains three special columns: `time`, `flux`, `flux_err`. The reason for ensuring the presence of these columns was that a...

Thanks @gully. This is an excellent question, worth discussing! There still is a TPFfactory in Lightkurve, but it needs some review, testing, and documentation to verify that it works with...

I went ahead and added a prototype version of TessCut for TICA to my experimental `tess-cloud` package. It runs entirely on the client side so no API is needed. @gully...

@gully You should be able to `pip install .` and let pip take care of everything. Does that work?

I'm planning to make a proper package out of this today. Stay tuned...

@christopherburke The TICA FFIs aren't actually on AWS S3 yet, so I've modified `tess-cloud` to issue range requests to the MAST HTTP server instead. I'll make the cutout tool available...

Uh oh! That's concerning because this would only be traffic generated while testing/developing the feature. Being able to fire a large number of requests simultaneously in an asynchronous way is...

I guess there is an important difference between the number of connections and the number of requests. Thank you for emphasizing this! My best understanding is that `tess-cloud` limits itself...

Update: it looks like someone may be hammering MAST with tess-cloud right now. I am going to make the tess-cloud repository private and yank the releases from pypi for now...

I set up a mock MAST TICA file server ([details here](https://github.com/SSDataLab/tess-cloud/tree/main/mockserver)) which allowed me to verify the connection behavior of `tess-cloud`. My findings: * I confirmed that the number of...