[janoskiss (Steve H)]

I've been outside with my ED80 for the past hour, and the seeing is terrific here in Melbourne. Transparency not so but who cares! It's plenty good enough for Mars. At 300x the little refractor is still producing steady images. But I need more aperture to see more. I just put the Dob out for cooling (wish I'd done so earlier but didn't think the clouds were going to clear).

If you're can stay up a bit longer, it'd be definitely worth it.