James Hilder describes how he manages to observe objects very low in the sky, from dark-sky sites such as the tip of Cornwall and the Galloway Forest Dark-Sky Park, but also from his flat in Russell Square in central London. Even from there he can see stars in the sting of Scorpius, and he can even view clusters such as M6 and M7. Talk given at a meeting of the Society for Popular Astronomy on 25 January 2014.
