After a couple of nights of frustrating clouds, and trying to make progress learning this new found hobby I had some clear skies and decided to give shooting the Orion Nebula a go. I only got 15 minutes of images before clouds ruined things again, but I was pretty happy to be able to polar align within a minute or two using the NINA three point polar alignment tool, use plate solving and the NINA framing assistant to get onto target, and start capturing some pictures.
I have some artifact on the image that I have been advised comes from dew/icing on the CCD sensor of the camera from cooling the camera too quickly.

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