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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Just pick a known bright star and centre it.
Calc its expected azimuth for that time using a phone app like SkySafari etc
Set The Azimuth circle to match
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This method I already use, but every observing session my scope is placed in a different location. The only guess I have is that the brick paved paths have an azimuth of 150 and 240 degrees.
As I need reading glasses (which do not work for objectes > 1 meter) to read off the coordinates from my phone's screen (which is dim red at night, no bright night vision killing full color) I have found a trick. I use now a screen magnifier (Android: triple click on the screen, under iOS three finger single click) which eliminates the need for reading glasses which works much more quickly.
The laser is a good idea. I'll try that.