Yes we can. If you would like you can come out to the Fox Observatory at Markham Park. I am a member of the SFAAA and volunteer there saturdays. Every saturday night we have a public viewing night were the observatory is open to the public and everyone can check out the big scopes we have in the observatory. Myself and a handful of others will setup our scopes and smart scopes on the concrete pad outside the observatory. There is also space in the grass surrounding the observatory if we have a lot of people setting up so there is plenty of space available. I will be there this saturday as the weather should be perfect and they just got done trimming some trees making the view of the northern sky even better. I really want to image Bodes galaxy this weekend so I am glad they did that. I will shoot you a message with my number and you can give me a shout whenever.
Well, if at least some of those Australian pine trees towards the North were trimmed, that's very good news!!!....March 29 I think the SCAS folks will have a New Moon star party at the D'Auria observatory property in the Redlands, I think that would be about Bortle 5?. But I think it is SCAS members only. In Big Cypress a very dark place is Kirby Storter in the Tamiami Trail, or Monument Lake.
That would be Bortle 2. very dark skies towards the South/South West. And not so many bugs this time of the year.
The view towards the East its not so good, even from there you can see a little bit of the Miami/Ft Lauderdale sky glow.