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I'm in Belconnen. Very obstructed area and I can't travel but I've had help in the past and found a place out westward of gold creek where the land is flat with a good horizon. Basically the driveway of a farm. Nice and dark away from traffic and glow of canberra (which is honestly sweet FA compared to a real city). I've been disappointed with the mountain tops in canberra, they often offer poor views with lots of trees at observation points, especially black mountain, designed to encourage you to pay to get above it up telstra tower. Winds are a pain on the mountain tops too. If you have specific targets you want to see, plan them first and use google street view at prospective locations to see if you can actually get unobstructed views or not. Plus you have aircraft beacons etc on mountain tops like the lighthouse on mt ainslie so imagining chances suck. Maybe you can tee up a visit to Baz and his asign2 observatory? Theres lots of roads on the outskirts but often little room to pull over safely for observing. Maybe Lake George would be better choice? I used to use a local "dimmer than home" site at Lake Ginnendera where I got some great photos across the lake to telstra tower, supermoon, sunrises etc. It'd be a small hike though from closest car park and gets above trees East and north and some south.
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