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If you can put a few marks on the ground in a place in your yard where you will regularly setup your scope you can be very close to SCp alignment from getgo.
Use a plumbbob at solar noon to give you a Nth\Sth shadow line, far more accurate than a compass that can be deviated by local anomalies.
Then with a bit of simple triangular geometry you can get an accurate East\West line across it.
I painted the lines on my driveway. Then placed the north pointing tripod leg on the N\S line and the other two straddling it on the E\W line. Level the tripod and adjust the dec angle with a phone app. Should get you pretty close to begin with.
Fine tune your alignment and when you have it right spot mark the foot spots for next time. I could put my scope away in the garage without altering the legs settings so it was just an easy job to lug it out, put it on the spots and maybe fine tune it a bit.
The solar noon line is the key to it all.
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