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Heck Rob, are you sure you're not aiming too high up the learning curve at the moment? If you haven't seen any nebs at all, why don't you just play visual for a while and have some fun. You should be able to achieve at least a one star alignment with minimum fuss and use the finder to home in the rest. Drift aligning is really only necessary for serious astrophotography with exposures>1min.
IIS members can be a HUGE help flattening that learning curve, but astrophotography can be a bit like hitting your head against a brick wall sometimes - just more expensive!
Don't you dare give up on us without trying visual for a while! Failing that, stack lots of short exposures<1min for while until you get to a gathering somewhere.
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