I have to teach a photography workshop for 3 hrs this afternoon so I had to get some sleep last night. I finally got to sleep around midnight and woke to an alarm at 230am prepared to drive an hour NW of Canberra past Yass to avoid the cloud predicted on GFS.
To my surprise, the sky, with the exception of a couple of clouds was clear when I woke. There is a site with a reasonably dark sky 5 mins drive west of my place on the western outskirts of Canberra so I decided to go there. The telescope was already in the car, I grabbed the laptop and cameras and headed out. I spent about 25 mins assembling and polar aligning. Before I even put the tube assemblies on the mounting, thick cloud started to roll in and I could see it was probably hopeless, so I packed up and went home to bed.
It's February, northern Australia is supposed to be clouded out and southern Australia completely clear!
Hope others had more luck than I did .
Joe