Crying out for Help....

Dug out my poor telescope from the shed. Covered in dust.
I have had it for about 5 or 6 years, and not used it very much, and not quite how it was intended.
It has a really neat motorised computer guidance system. Once it is lined up properly with the Pole Star, you can punch in the name of hundreds of stars, planets or constellations and it will swing round to point to that object. It will then keep the object in view, counteracting the rotation of the Earth. I have never really set it up to do this properly because it takes ages to do, and I have never had a permanent pillar to mount it on, so I would have to perform the setup every time I wanted to use it.
So I have only used it without the tracking system to look briefly at various planets, the Moon and nebulae.

The Plan.
I want to 'Piggyback' my camera onto the telescope and use the tracking system to take better pictures of the night sky.
I should be able to take long exposures which don't have the usual star trails curving across each shot.
The long exposures should allow much fainter objects to show up, and a lot more detail should be visible in star custers and nebulae.

It will take a lot of cleaning and preparation to get the telescope into any kind of useable condition.

Should be fun though!

JimH.