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Add support for observers in capture module. Observer names are sent to INDI CCD driver where they are recorded in the FITS header. Furthermore, target name is also sent to the CCD driver to be recorded as OBJECT

Here is a patch that will add a sort function to the mount modeling tool that will start with the point that is currently closest to the telescope and then sort the rest of the points by the minimal distance after the previous point.  Also I added a check to see if Goto Nothing is selected in the align module and if so, a warning is issued when the user tries to start the modeling tool.

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Further improvement to Ekos profile wizard. Only make it automatically show one time per session. Added more tips

Adding Ekos Profile Wizard which should aid new users in creating equipment profiles for their equipment

This patch should probably fix the dotted lines disappearance issue on the Alignment Solutions Plot.  It is due to a bug in some versions of QCustomPlot with a simple fix setScatterSkip(0)

This patch should address the path issue for your new port finding algorithm.  I also reversed the order of the items in the path so it looks for programs in the app first.  Then I noticed that an algorithm I had used to get the path for the directory the indiserver is located in was out of date in several places.  I had come up with a better algorithm about a month ago.  So I updated that too.

This patch addresses some inaccuracies we found in the positioning of objects in the alignment points by instead using J2000 coordinates in the alignment points table and updating the coordinates after receiving the objects from the database.
It also improves the functionality of the CSV file exported of the solution points by changing the format of the RA and DEC so that programs do not interpret the RA and DEC as a time, adding the epoch to the exported table header, and adding the RA and DEC in degrees for ease of graphing the errors in charts.

I was thinking that it would be nice to get a preview of the alignment points on the sky.  I found a nice way to do that using flags, without disrupting the users personal flags, nor adding the flags to the flag manager nor saving them permanently.  I made them automatically update any time the user changes the alignment points list.  After I did this, I improved the distribution of alignment points via the wizard based on the visual distribution of alignment points.  This patch should address all of that.

This patch should simplify the align points wizard, making the interface easier to use, while actually giving it more functionality in that it can now make a grid of points across the sky instead of just a line.
Also I sorted the greek names list alphabetically by constellation and by greek letter, which should help.  I also modified StarPoint.h so that it has a hasLatinName method to simplify my code significantly.

I found some spherical trig in another part of kstars that I could modify slightly to calculate the points I needed for the align points wizard to truly generate equally distributed points along a particular dec line in the sky from the minimum altitude on either side of the sky.
In the process of the revision, I added a spin box for the minimum altitude so it is not just hard coded to 30 degrees anymore, I added another spin box so the user could specify the declination used for the align points.
This will allow the user to very quickly create a grid of align points to build a highly accurate pointing model.
I added an option to let the user choose whether to use bright alignment stars, any objects kstars finds near the points, or fixed points not connected to any object.
I also fixed the problem reported where the CSV file export fails because there is no name for a point.  I added the word “None" to fix it.

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This patch adds export functionality to the solutions table, a spin box for the mount model wizard align point number, makes nicely formatted greek names appear in the greek names box, and makes the wizard search for stars in the alignment list in its search radius
before just finding the nearest obscure object near the alignment point.

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+ Added wizard to generate alignment points
+ Save/Load alignment list points
+ Tooltips

Let processXXX messsages go up to chain to DeviceDecorator where they are sent to GenericDevice to be processed if required and GenericDevice will emit the signal for the property update

REIVEW:129998

+ More work toward support for INDI astrometry drivr

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