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Thanks all.
Looks like the "garden spots" in the southern sky have been identified. I forgot to mention that I have a 6in f8 scope (30 yr old Criterion RV6!).
Just so you'll know how far South I can see the observing site is N32.93 deg.
I tried to see if I could spot Achernar but just missed it (horizon cut off). Never realized how long and winding the constellation Eridanus is. Kind of like Pisces as far as the consistency of the magnitudes of stars that make it up. Canopus was low but easy. Identified Columba as well.
I've been a double/multiple star maniac lately as I'm going through a home made list of 304 of them based on the LX200 double star list.
The goal in my travelling South is to look up at the night sky and be "lost" (i.e. not knowing the constellations associated with the stars I'm looking at)
Ed
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