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RE: The Orion Nebula (taken by me)
Great image @betelzeus
It's great to control the mount with the computer. This offers many new possibilities. I have no idea how the alignment on the southern hemisphere works, but maybe @terrylovejoy can help you.
For centering the target or telling the mount the exact position you can now use plate solving ("All Sky Plate Solver" or AstroTortilla). That was the main reason why I build my Astro-PC.
I hope you will have the time and energy to give it a new try in future. :-)
Hey thanks @astrophoto.kevin . Previously I've aligned manually just using the polar scope and got decent results , but for some reason any time I had tried any software polar alignment it just doesn't seem to work for me. (Probably me doing something wrong in the end though haha).
And cool man , thanks for mentioning those apps , I hadn't heard of either of those. I went and had a look and they look like they would be quite helpful :)
Polar alignment can be a tricky thing. On the northern hemisphere, we have the luck to have Polaris. But if I don't see it, it's very complicated to make the alignment.
I think the fastest way would be to use something like QHY PoleMaster or SharpCap if you have trouble to see the constellations in the sky through the polar scope. I have some marks on the ground after I had an acceptable alignment, so I just need to put the tripod on the marks and it is roughly aligned.
You're welcome :-)