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Just starting out
Hi folks,
I'm a newbie into astronomy and on this forum. I have recently moved out to a farm property around 500m high in Gippsland Vic about 20k's from the nearest town (town lights can be faintly seen in the NW in the distance in the valley). I'm getting a C11 CGEM HD as a first scope as the night (dark) skies here are pretty impressive and will look to setup a permanent observatory (roll back roofed shed?) with pier mount to make it easy to open up and start observing and keep all the stuff easily acccessable. Will do mainly visual first and then plan to get into AP.
I have a line of tall trees (up to 40m high) about 40m to the south of the house and also about about 100m to the west of the property and am thinking of setting up the shed to give me clear views from NW to E (north facing property) and straight up. This allows the shed to be close to the house and in a secure area.
Generally speaking, is this aspect one that gives good views of planets and interesting deep sky or should I move it further out to give me better views facing south and west (making access to the shed a bit harder).
Appreciate your comments.
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