Agreed,
Basically I run NexStar from here looking for what it suggested as guidestars - 16 choices, of which from my covered balcony I could see 4 (Spica, Arcturus, Vega and Altair).
Tonight I'll try it from my backyard on the tripod rather than my pier, and use a powertank rather than a transformer.
GoogleEarth allows me to see not only my street, but my house to 1 foot of where my scope is!!!
Also knowing the exact published GPS of optus towers you can zoom on these and check findings!
Date and time etc to be checked again tonight...
As to finding which star is which, I printed a star chart with only order 1 magnitude stars of brighter from my location using
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Yoursky
Puzzling!