Hello everyone,
My name is William LT_Ng (LT as my account initial here) from Hong Kong, and I have been disappeared from this forum for almost 2 years.
Before my disappearing, I sometime posted planetary and deep sky object images in this forum. But in the past 2 years, I havn't posted any. Because my 12.5" Newtonian telescope and observatory were destroyed by a typhoon attack, and the Juipter was not at a good position for quality image captured. Moreover, the light pollution is so severe in HK that HK got a cover image recently on the May issue of S&T. So shame to a HK astronomy amateur. And because of it, I frequently came to Australia for AP in the past years.
This year I will spend my vacation from July 11th to 25th for sightseeing and AP in Australia again.
In the past years, we always went to Coonabarabran for AP, and the Warrumbungle Mountain Motel was our most favourite motel for accommodation and doing AP as they have a very large grass field and very wide open area for astronomy. The light pollution there is very low and the environment in the motel is very safe and thus we sometimes left our astronomical setup in the grass field in the daytime when we went out to other towns for sightseeing. If you have interest, welcome to take a look at their website of
www.warrumbungle.com .
But this year, my friend Alan and I want to try some new places for AP in the east coastal area. We plan to spend our 1st week to travel around some places such as Newcastle and Port Macquarie in between Sydney and Brisbane for sightseeing and AP.
So, could you recommend us some motels similar to the Warrumbungle Mountain Motel with a wide-open and dark sky good for AP in or near Newcastle, Muswellbrook, Port Marquarie, Walcha, etc.?
If my memory is correct, Mike had organised a planetary imaging conference (?) in a place near Newcastle. Seemed this place is also good for AP and accommodation is available at this place at very reasonable price. Is it right? Could anyone provide me with information?
It is absolutely a great honour to us if you can provide us with a chance to visit you. If you would like to, please send PM to me.
Thank you very much in advance for any of your suggestion to me.
Best regards,
William LT Ng