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Originally Posted by bojan
Without permanent site, this project is a waste of time and money, IMO.
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Not necessarily , the ASH has / had last time I heard a dark site on a properly near Kurri Kurri .
A big scope on a souped up / modified trailor is a great solution too , you can simply tow it to a dark location and a few minutes of tweeking the collimation and leveling (and polar alignment if equatorially mounted) and you are in business , you don't have to buy a block of land or develop an observing site .
George (if he still lives in Hamilton, an inner suburb of Newcastle) doesn't need to travel far home to get to a good observing site where the sky is dark and clean(pretty dark north of Raymond Terrace, or west towards Kurri , or south towards Rathmines).
Been several years since I touched base with George, I should look him up sometime.