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Gary, thank you very mutch. I think amateur astronomy are a world comunity and is nice that we help together. If you come in Italy, I'm happy to observe with you but we haven't your dark sky.
I'm comfort that there isn't poisonous animals and I will be carefull for kangaroo but also in Italy there are dogs and boarb who cross montain street.
However I'm setting with my girlfriend to go to Coonabarabran from 11th to 14th december, first night at Warrumbungles Mountain Motel and after I hope to observe next observtory: I think is wanderful to observe with free horizont to see set of sun and moon and make wide field long exposure photo with dome.
Remember that on 13 december there will be Geminids meteor shower. Radiant is low in Australia (in Italy is nearly zenit) but in 2005 I saw over 300 meteors in only a night (I contributed at International Meteor Organizazion research) and they are good.
By the way, just I have definitive program, I send you a message. I'm very heppy to observe with you and your group and it can be an opportunity to meet and set next total solar eclipse of november 2012 in Queensland.
We will leave from Sydney by rent car.
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