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Gday Darcy
I bought a wireless modem this afternoon so i am on the web (saves me stealing my wife's - she suffers anxiety attacts when disconnected from Facebook).
The other ones to check out the web sites for are BAS (Brisbane Astronomical Society) and SEQAS (Sth East Qld - obviously) - they also have active astrophotgraphy groups if you dont feel like driving to Dreamworld area - although i would at least reccommend the Eddie Trimachi presentation.
As Paul also points out dont forget the North Coast guys as well - they have a very active group up there with Paul, Nettie, Alex etc etc (most of who you will see on this forum). I am pretty sure anyone you talk to in this community and at the dark sky sites will be only too happy to help - once we were all exactly where you are now.
If you are ever in the Underwood area area on a Saturday morning call in at Sirius Optics. Peter Marples works there on a Sat and there are often a bunch of guys the informally get together there for hot chips and a chat (and a fair amount of bs) - Jeremy Moser is usually there and he does some great stuff from suburbia (Loganholme) - he is also worth catching up with
Anyway there are a plethora of resources around that you probably dont realise when you first get into this frustrating pass time of ours. I dont have the Leyburn pdf map out here but will email it to you when I get back on Sun night. Can you PM me your regular email address for that
Good Luck
Mark
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