While Melbourne won't win any awards for best observation site on Earth, seeing here isn't that crap, well it's pretty average, but not terrible. Most nights planets look decent at 200x and I can use 300x for DSO observing more often than not. Infact, some of the poor seeing I get might be the result of my local surroundings as I observe from a concrete patio wedged inbetween my house, a water heater and the fence.
Summer seems to be best, winter worst when it comes to seeing here, don't know why, but those are my observations. The real problem here is not seeing, its the freakin permanent cloud cover
