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iceman, no real light pollution - canberra is pretty spread out, and there's lots of trees n stuff around. Not sure how I'd go for deep sky work, but for planets its fine.
The small PC in the instrument case has a wireless lan card, and it feeds temp data about the mirror and tube back to me inside the house, so I can see how it's going. The wireless card isn't quite fast enough to feed video, but in a year or so we'll have wireless firewire at 400Mb or 800Mb, and then I can stay inside :-)
The FL is 1500mm. It's a 250mm mirror, f/6. Not sure if you can see it in the pic here but the top 1/3 of the tube unclamps and comes off for easy transport. That's thanks to a great guy called Gary Mitchell in Sydney. You can see one of the clamps in the picture.
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