Thanks Liz,
I'm sitting here in Adelaide with a copy of Stellarium on my PC and I'm going to have a squint at the sky. It looks nice and dark to my eye but I'm sure some country observers would say it's polluted. It's a real pity I wasted luggage space on the usual friviouus family junk and left my Skywatcher Equinox ED80 at home. I'm afraid my priorities were all wrong
Here's hoping someone picks up my plaintive request.
All the best,
Gerrymac.