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This is a video from a facebook Livestream I recorded last night, while setting up to capture 5 hours of data for the Sunflower galax, aka Messier-63.

I align the telescope using plate solving, focus it on Alkaid, and then set up autoguiding using PHD2 with an off-axis guider. Finally, I start the imaging run.

The equipment used is:

SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro motorized equatorial Goto mount
Celestron Nexstar 8SE, OTA only
Celestron 0.63x focal reducer for non-EdgeHD SCTs
Celestron SCT Focus motor
IDAS LPS-P2 Light pollution filter
ZWO ASI 294MC Pro cooled oneshot colour deepsky astronomy camera
ZWO Off-Axis Guider
ZWO ASI 224MC as the guide camera
Bahtinov mask

The software used is:
Gentoo Linux
INDI server. Drivers: eqmod, asicam, celestron_sct (focus motor)
indistarter GUI for INDI
ccdciel for capturing
PHD2 for guiding
eqmod_gui for mount control

The processing was done in DeepSkyStacker (with wine), and Gimp.