Sab, reading your posts, people might get the impression Melbourne was a bad place to do astronomy. I can only conclude you've never lived in a truly difficult place to do astronomy if you think this. It's a big city and you'll have haze and LP if you want to live with big city benefits. It has a decent number of clear nights. There's no frost, and relatively little dew. You have a decent chance of clear skies throughout the year (try QLD in the austral summer, or above 50 deg N in June). IMHO, it sounds like your standards for clear skies appear much too high to allow you to actually enjoy the pleasures of the great many clear nights on offer.
Last night I had a great evening, observing a nice range of clusters, nebulae and planetaries (for example I had my first visual from Melbourne of the Pencil neb last night), some galaxies in Antlia, and a respectable view of Saturn. Not perfect conditions by a fair margin, but if I waited for them, I might get no observing done!
I'm sure you'd be happier if you worked with what you have instead of grumbling about it? Or if you really can't stand Melbourne conditions, can you do something about it? Perhaps I don't understand, because conditions here are good - better than anywhere else I have lived. And it is certainly not the fault of the DSE/CFA!
But peace, and clear skies to you - may they be cloudless, transparent, steady and haze-free at New Moon
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