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Originally Posted by zoombie
One more question, in summer, the sun stay out longer, is that means the view won't be as good as it is in winter or do I just have to stay up later?
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The biggest variable - and it's going to defeat you more often than oblige - is the weather. I don't quite see how you think you can have people booking in advance for a tour, when the likelihood of it being a total failure is quite high due to cloud, wind, rain or fog. And you can't be reasonably sure of this - ie if its go/no go - until 6 hours before setting off.
Few people will have the patience to spend 5 hours being driven up and back for a dud night to see nothing. Many of us here have done that, but only because we're fairly committed to this hobby.
You only have to look at the success rate for the nights people have planned on this forum over the past few years, which can be summed up as follows:
- most of us aim for the Saturday night nearest new moon; so 12-13 per year.
- of these specific nights the success rate is at about 4 good nights per year in the blue mountains.
Which means you stand a 30% chance of a good night, the weather will spoil the rest., either partially (anything from high haze, clouds coming and going, fog) to a howling bitterly cold gale, to total overcast or rain.