Patience is definately a virtue in Astronomy. Once you get the hang of it, you'll be planning up sessions so that all objects will appear high up (near your merdian) during eyepiece time.
Get Stellarium installed on your computer, along with a planning program (Astroplanner for example). Stellaraium is good for learing the sky and how to learn the so-important "star hopping" once you get into fainter objects. Astroplanner, well, the name says it all...
As for me... clear skies in Adelaide... do you know why? My stuff from Perth is still in transit. I'll lay down $100 that once I get my scopes unpacked, it'll cloud up...
after all, my last week in Perth it rained and rained and didn't clear up at all until the day the packers came, then it was clear...
