CCD Astrophotography Setup Test

The Orion Newtonian telescope is fitted with my old SBIG ST-8300 CCD camera, and a Starlight Xpress filter wheel equipped with LRGB and H-alpha filters. Autofocus is achieved with the Pegasus Focuscube 3. It is mounted on the Takahashi EM-200 USD3 mount. As the mount does not have a functioning declination drive I can not autoguide, and at this longer focal length I am limited to 60 second subframes. The mount is powered by 2x12V batteries connected in series to give 24V which speeds up the RA drive which is helpful during the initial polar alignment routine with the QHY Polemaster. I locate the deep sky objects using the setting circles on the mount, then adjust the framing manually.