Hi Flash,
The smoke must have been heading North to the Sunny Coast, but the strong breeze at Mt Mee was blowing East towards the coast.
Last night while at Mt Mee, I used the Astro-Tech eyepiece that I purchased from you. It's main role is for use in my Son's refractor but I wanted to give it a good run under dark skies.
It is not really suited to the Dob with a fair bit of coma around the outer edge of the FOV. I put an OIII filter on it to see how the wider field of view would go on nebula and it did a good job on Eta Carina.