After few conversations on this forum, I have learned few things about setting things up with kstars and I wanted to give another try.
So I have aligned my Celestron Nexstar Evolution 6. Weirdly enough, that alignment is not so precise, or probably I am doing something wrong (not sure how to make alignment more precise?)
I mean it works okish for first few mins and then is completly misaligned.

I am connecting CCD, and fireing things up. But from there, I have still no idea what I am doing and tutorials I found so far as kind of out of date so I hope that somebody could guide me here
After few updates, I have noticed that picture from CCD comes black and white instead of color and it has some weird grid pattern that was not there before. Not sure if this is new feature of if something is not right ? (you can see it in youtube attached ~1:00min)

Guide TAB
To be hones I am not 100% sure what should i expect from this guiding feature, what exactly it would guide ? but at this moment it did nothing for me. I hit "capture", clicked on my point of interest, guide and nothing happened. It makes circle around planet but nothing besides that.

Solve TAB
yet again, not sure what I am supposed to get out of this solve - is it supposed to help stabilizing alignment? keep track of tracked object?
Anyway, I click "capture and solve" clicked on target, and I thought "slew to target" would do something, but it did nothing

CCD Tab:
Live preview would be useful to see what is happening, but I have no idea where could I set up exposure for live preview.
"preview" button is not helping me much, besides that It react to set exposure value.

From that point I don't know where I could even start making photos/videos from stacking. Does even kstars have an option for stacking photos?
I have so many questions and I was unable to find much of help within videos that would guide me through.
Most frustrating part is not being able to even start. I would love to have some clear steps and understand how should i approach in order to get proper photo From that point I could just focus on refining it.

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