Note that the 3.9m is run by the AAO, not ANU. The ANU run the 2.3m and many of the other scopes on the western end of the site.
Glad to hear the setup is going well. But are you still going to get the same 'buzz' from doing everything remotely? Half the fun of astronomy for me is getting out there in the night air and spending time hunting and then reflecting (internally, not optically) and the wonders in the eyepiece. Doing it from a computer screen 500 km away just wouldn't do it for me
