Hello folks,
I was wondering if anybody could help suggest a good place to get out of brisbane and give darker skies a go. Since I would (hopefully) dragging several fellow telescope newbies, who also have never seen anything other than light polluted skies, my guess is that my practical limits are approximate 0-1.5 hours out. Really, I'm basically asking for insider knowledge of "a field" in "a place". In an ideal world, we would not be bothering anybody, infact, best case scenario, there is nobody close to bother. Since we know nothing and will likely arrive hideously unprepared, it is questionable that we should go out so far, having no real clue on how to locate anything. I'm a pro at the moon, though. It only takes about 4 hours to locate it in my finderscope
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I am aware that the astrocamp is soon to be occurring but I venture that the itch must be scratched this weekend, atleast, somewhat. Basically, I guess I'd go anywhere, but strangely, I'm not terribly keen on coming across drunk idiots, brimming with charisma - so I'm lax to do the old spin the globe and point routine.
I know SAS go to pimpama to meet, but do the skies out there do that small journey justice? At this stage of the game, I would be captivated by seeing one galaxy. (In my finderscope, of course, I've not even taken the lens cap off the main ota*)
*some creative exaggeration has occurred during this sentence