Hi and Happy New Year to everyone,
Ironically, I find is soooo much easier to locate and identify the asterism of 4 stars that make up the Octans trapezium……in light polluted Brisbane, than I do at a dark sky site!
The light pollution in my suburb is optimised such that these 4 stars just peek out above the light pollution threshold, making them reasonably easy to see in my Polar Alignment Scope once I have acquired the general field.
At a dark sky site however, I find it hard to pick the 4 stars in the PAS due to the plethora of other stars that are now suddenly visible.
Cheers
Dennis