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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
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 |
Mike,
Thanks
Top notch images !!
NGC 1365 amongst others are definitely on my list too from my South Coast Dome , nice dark skies and a substantially bigger mount and scope ( 10” Carbon fibre Newt on a EQ8-R pro )
Yep , can’t beat dark skies
BOM has La Niña weakening in a few months so a persistent cloudy east coast probably until the end of summer ……
When we finally get some consistent clear nights we will be all like shift workers doing the graveyard
Cheers
Martin