Well its 1-50am and been out for a look with the new 80mm binos.
Very impressed so far
. Had a look around steading them was the only problem but managed a view of Orion to get a feel for the viewing conditions down here. Not too bad at all. Could see a fair ammount of nebulosity more than I expected and given that I was not fully dark adjusted I recon it can only get better when on a tripod or on a eq mount ..might put the binos on the eq5 if I canI thought the light polution would be so much worse but it is not bad at all. MAybe its so late everyone has turned their lights off in Sydney but I was impressed to say the least. There is hope for some observing and photos I feel. Cant use the mount as there is no power supply might get one tomorrow and have a go at some photos thru the new 300mm lens to see how that goes.
Anyways great stuff very happy so far
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alex