seeing-things/track

Allow specification of bright star by coordinates in `autofocus` and `align_guidescope`

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Currently it's only possible to specify what bright star to use in autofocus and align_guidescope by providing the name of that star. This interface is not very flexible and there are some moderately bright stars that don't have common names. A challenge for these specific programs is that program arguments for the target must be passed from a parent process (e.g., autofocus) to a subprocess (track).

  • Modify these programs such that it's possible to specify a star using either a common name or equatorial coordinates.
  • Add an enum.Flag parameter to targets.add_program_arguments() that allows the caller to pick a subset of the available target types.