Dale
Try the bright objects from the book "Southern Gems".
https://picasaweb.google.com/1100488...NmBqrC6xdOrLw#
"In Southern Gems, Stephen James O'Meara makes a detour beneath the southern skies, presenting a fresh list of 120 deep-sky objects for southern hemisphere stargazers to observe.."
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic...-southern-gems
Have you been to the ASSA?
https://www.assa.org.au/facilities/stockport/