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I spent 5 weeks touring New Zealand in January, 2005 with my wife who happens to be a Kiwi. I took my 16 x 60 Pentax Binos with me. We spent about 14 days on the West Coast of the South Island from Te Anau up to Greymouth. The section from Haast up to the Glaciers at Fox and Franz Joseph were as good a skies as I have seen. The transparency was superb as the prevailing breeze is a westerly off the Tasman Sea with the mountains right behind you. The seeing wasn't great but that didnt matter much as I was only using binos. I didn't attempt an accurate LM test but it was well over 7.0. NGC 2808 a 6.2 mag glob in Carina was a pretty easy naked eye target.
CS-John B
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