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Consider astroalign for tracking corrections #895

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@wtgee

We currently plate-solve each image and do a comparison with the pointing image in order to determine the x and y pixel offsets that are used for tracking correction. This works but can be slow depending on the plate-solve, especially when operating from a Raspberry Pi.

Look into using the new astroalign library to obtain pixel offsets.

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Replace the plate-solving in pocs.observatory.Observatory.analyze_recent with an astroalign offset.

https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/blob/develop/pocs/observatory.py#L492-L498

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