I haven't thought about chucking it all in - but it has been a very depressing winter here in Melbourne wrt AP and even visual observing. The one or two 'clear' nights have usually been midweek - no good because of work in the morning, or the clear skies weren't until after midnight - same problem.
I haven't been able to use my gear usefully since SVAC back in March!
In truth the weather has reminded me of what it was like to live in the UK for a year - the only difference between Melbourne and Cambridge that I've seen is that Melbourne's cloud base was few thousand feet and not a few hundred.
Hopefully spring will be better.
Paul
PS I'm not exactly holding my breath though!
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