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Old 21-01-2008, 04:42 PM
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.....our climate just plain sucks"

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You'll want to avoid Melbourne coz our climate just plain sucks - as an astronomer, seeing 4x more of that famous southern ocean slate grey, low-level drizzly stratocrapulus cloud than clear skies in any given year really ticks me off. Somewhere like Northwestern Vic is excellent due to the nearly constant clear weather and completely flat terrain for 100's of km in all directions, leading to steady seeing.
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i've kept log books for years....... they average 100+ nights a yr
and 400+ hours. Thats over 95% moonless deep sky stuff. i do
globulars in M31 and other abell gx cluster stuff for fun.

Soooooooooooo i gotta have a serious site or i'll cry like a baby!

waaaaaaaaaaaaa.......Lance aka "abellhunter"
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