Hey guys, thanks for the awesome advice.
Ken that was very reassuring haha

Those shots the get from Singapore are just incredible. I don't know if my ED80/HEQ5 will be able to produce images of that magnitude even under nice seeing condictions

But the fact that images of such high quality can be produced under mega light polluted sky's astounds me. Brissy doesn't scare me as much as it used too
And Rob you make a great point. It would make the dark skys all the more enticing. I've only had the oppotrunity to get set up and properly image once out at Paul's sanctuary at Coolabine so setting up by myself has been a bit... problematic. Practice practice!
Just another question, If in my situation which would be the prefered filter? The CLS CCD looks alot nicer (to me) because of the price and allowance for colour but the Ha looks like it could produce some brilliant black and white Ha images.
Again, thanks for the answers. Great to get advice from the pro's.