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Originally Posted by bmitchell82
Skyglow kills stars there for you need a goto system to view anything (how can you star hop with no stars to base off of) apart from the major nebule, stars and globs.
if you can get something like a 12" with Argo navis or some form of digital setting circles that would be best as your setup time is minimized. further more carting a 12" is dooable (make a trolly to move it around!).
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This is a good point. I did some viewing through my 12" at my brother's place in suburban Sydney. I do all my viewing by star hopping. It was just too difficult to find objects as the seeing-eye limiting magnitude was about 4. For example, Alphard was pretty much the only star I could see in Hydra, so tracking down the planetary nebula Ghost of Jupiter (Vmag 7) was next to impossible.
Regards, Rob.