Penny for your thoughts...
If you had the choice of living in a small Queensland town for 2 to 4 months next year, where would you go to optimise your photon collecting opportunities?
The reason I ask is that all domestic medical students have to do a rural/remote rotation, so I thought I'd try to plan for some epic imaging at the same time
The main requirements are that I'd need:
* sealed highway access from Brisbane (need to drive my gear there).
* a town with a Queensland Health (public) medical facility or hospital.
* easy access to dark skies and somewhere I can leave my kit set up.
A small town like Surat or Mitchell would be ideal - somewhere small enough to not have (many) street lights, so I wouldn't have to drive out of town.
I'd be staying at the nurse's quarters, so I could potentially leave my imaging kit permanently set up just outside the hospital (covered in tents/tarps during the day) and be able to duck in and out during the evening.
Maybe winter (mid-May to mid-July) for the choice of targets and cooler weather too.
Crazy enough plan that it just might work?
