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Excellent report
Hi Alexander and Peter,
You did so well seeing some of those objects from Sydney suburbia with the moon up. I too found objects in the opposite part of the sky to the moon much easier to spot than the area around Scorpio. I found the globulars were best in a moonlit sky. Hunting double stars is also well worth doing. It just means looking for targets with a high surface brightness that will work on the night. Have you tried the filter on any planetaries, eg NGC7009? I must try a blue filter on Jupiter, I think I have an old photographic one somewhere. Good to see some observers not being put off by light pollution or the moon. Cheers, Paul.
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