Thanks guys.?
No doubt we're spoilt for choice down under. The center of the milkyway passes at the zenith in winter where I live but imaging in summer is now near impossible with the high night time temperatures which is a shame because that's when Orion and Monoceros are higher in our northern sky.
You can see the eta carina nebula naked eye under dark skies and easily in even a small refractor. It's circumpolar so never sets like the two magellanic clouds. Visually you won't see any colours but you'll clearly see the keyhole and the top ridge nebulosity. These colours are not?real. It's narrowband.
I saw the homunculus clearly in a 21inch F/4 once as it's quite bright. It's over exposed in the photo.
Pretty sure there would be a fair bit of aussies in this group sharing pics from downunder. I'll post some more and an RGB widefield with real colors.
