I've not been to WA (WA and Tassie are the two states/territories I've not visited), so it seems like a good place to go, around October/November. December might not be an option as the return air fares out from the UK go right up, thanks to Christmas and New Year holidays.
Also, are the Magellanic Clouds well placed during the summer? I have seen them during the winter but what about summer?
Are there any star parties during the Aussie summer? I know of the autumn or winter ones, such as Queensland Astrofest (I went to that in 1997) and SPSP.
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Plenty of poms (British immigrants) live over here, in fact many of them appear to enjoy life-threatening levels of solar exposure after a lifetime of grey skies.
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LOL - but, in defence of my country, our skies aren't really too bad...it depends on where in the UK you are and what time of year (winter here is really ultra-depressing). If you live in Scotland, north west England or west Wales the skies are grey, it's really wet and I'd hate to live there. But if you live, as I do, in the south east, where our weather is influenced more by continental Europe (France) than the Atlantic Ocean, it is much sunnier and clearer than the rest of the place. We get less rain in SE England than Dallas, Rome or...
Sydney.