Thank you gentlemen!
Admittedly, the image was very much a heavy artillery effort....which would have been so much easier if my backyard observatory was somewhere west of the Blue Mountains! .....but also testimony to the fact that CCD's can be used in very bright skies, yet still deliver tidy results....it's just a matter of exposure time...(no sales pitch here...just physics
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Now.....if these Sydney thunderstorms would just move on......Orion has just about set for another year!