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Originally Posted by Startrek
Thanks big Mike,
Always giving encouragement, top bloke
On another note , ever tried imaging under Bortle 8 in Sydney’s filthy light polluted skies , it’s a battle that’s for sure with broadband
Cheers
Martin
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Well yes, not from Sydney but inner Canberra city precincts and Newcastle city inner suburbs.
Back in mid 2006 I imaged from Campbell in the ACT for a short time, between house moves, we lived next to the Australian War Memorial so the skies were pretty light polluted but I still liked to get out with the Starfire APO and my Starlightxpress SXVH9 and do some short snaps, just for fun, here is a pretty lacklustre short snap of
NGC 1097
But this quick RGB only, snap shot (30min total exposure) of
Orion's Sword was taken from light polluted inner suburban Newcastle in 2011, with my then new Orion Optics UK 12" F3.8 Newt and FLI PL16803 CCD, it come out surprisingly well for such a location!
Dark skies are much better for imaging, no question about that though and you can go
reeeeally deep! 
.....sorry
NGC 1365 is on my list of four potential possible full-on first light targets for Eagleview, depending on when (if?) the SE of Oz actually ever clears up for long enough
Mike