Panoptes-pocs

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* Lots of changes in this release. In particular we've pushed through a lot of changes
* (especially with the help of jamessynge) to make the development process a lot
* smoother. This has in turn contribute to the quality of the codebase.

Too long between releases but even more exciting improvements to come!
Next up is tackling the events notification system, which will let us
start having some vastly improved UI features.

Below is a list of some of the changes.

Thanks to first-time contributors: jermainegug jeremylan as well as
contributions from many folks over at
https://github.com/AstroHuntsman/huntsman-pocs.

Fixed
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* Cameras
* Fix for DATE-OBS fits header [589].
* Better property settings for DSLRs [589].
* Pretty image improvements [589].
* Autofocus improvements for SBIG/Focuser [535].
* Primary camera updates [614, 620].
* Many bug fixes [457, 589].
* State Machine
* Many fixes [509, 518].

Changed
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* Mount
* POCS Shell: Hitting ``Ctrl-c`` will complete movement through states [590].
* Pointing updates, including ``auto_correct`` [580].
* Tracking mode updates (**fixes for Northern Hemisphere only!**) [549].
* Serial interaction improvements [388, 403].
* Shutdown improvements [407, 421].
* Dome
* Changes from May Huntsman commissioning run [535]
* Messaging
* Better and consistent topic terminology [593, 605].
* Anticipation of coming events.
* Misc
* Default to rereading the fields file for targets [488].
* Timelapse updates [523, 591].

Added
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* Cameras
* Basic scripts for bias and dark frames.
* Add support for Optec FocusLynx based focus controllers [512].
* Pretty images from FITS files. Thanks jermainegug! [538].
* Testing
* pyflakes testing support for bug squashing! :bettle: [596].
* pycodestyle for better code! [594].
* Threads instead of process [468].
* Fix coverage & Travis config for concurrency [566].
* Google Cloud [599]
* Added instructions for authentication [600].
* Add a ``pan_id`` to units for GCE interaction[595].
* Adding Google CloudDB interaction [602].
* Sensors
* Much work on arduinos and sensors [422].
* Misc
* Startup scripts for easier setup [475].
* Install scripts for Ubuntu 18.04 [585].
* New database type: mongo, file, memory [414].
* Twitter! Slack! Social median interactions. Hooray! Thanks
jeremylan! [522]

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Changed
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* Enforce 100 character limit for code
`159 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/159>`__.
* Using root-relative module imports
`252 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/252>`__.
* ``Observatory`` is now a parameter for a POCS instance
`195 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/195>`__.
* Better handling of simulator types
`200 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/200>`__.
* Log improvements:
* Separate files for each level and new naming scheme
`165 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/165>`__.
* Reduced log format
`254 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/254>`__.
* Better reusing of logger
`192 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/192>`__.
* Single shared MongoClient connection
`228 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/228>`__.
* Improvements to build process
`176 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/176>`__,
`166 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/166>`__.
* State machine location more flexible
`209 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/209>`__,
`219 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/219>`__
* Testing improvements
`249 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/249>`__.
* Updates to many wiki pages.
* Misc bug fixes and improvements.

Added
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* Merge PEAS into POCS
`169 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/169>`__.
* Merge PACE into POCS
`167 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/167>`__.
* Support added for testing of serial devices
`164 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/164>`__,
`180 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/180>`__.
* Basic dome support
`231 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/231>`__,
`248 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/248>`__.
* Polar alignment helper functions moved from PIAA
`265 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/265>`__.

Removed
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* Remove threading support from rs232.SerialData
`148 <https://github.com/panoptes/POCS/pull/148>`__.

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Added
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* First real release!
* Working POCS features:
* mount (iOptron)
* cameras (DSLR, SBIG)
* focuer (Birger)
* scheduler (simple)
* Relies on separate repositories PEAS and PACE
* Automated testing with travis-ci.org
* Code coverage via codecov.io
* Basic install scripts