Great night out tonight (Friday). Logan (Loggieberran), myself and my three sons headed 45 minutes out of Canberra to Honeysuckle Creek. Beautiful dark skies!! Nice and simple astro - a big dob. No GOTO. No batteries. Just skies, memory and the occasional glance at Sky Atlas 2000 (Fornax and Sculptor are hard constellations to remember for me!).
First time under a truly dark sky with a large-ish scope for many years. I usually get one or the other (either dark skies or a large scope).
The two little ones fell asleep, but my eldest took some good notes. We had one FOV with 6 clear galaxies in it at one stage. Thanks Logan for your help! Couldn't have taken the kids and scope by myself.
