While I'm not trying to load a 12" scope onto my mount (yet
), depending on what sort of imaging I'm doing, setting up can take from 10min to an hour.
If I'm planetary imaging the marks on the concrete are close enough to keep the planet in the field of view of a ToUcam for 10 min easy. Sometimes if it's a really rough alignment I'll even autoguide to keep the planet centered. I'll do the same thing if I'm DSOing on another mount so I don't have to keep coming back and recentering for subsequent (automatically taken) shots.
If I'm DSOing then it may take me up to an hour to get really finicity polar aligned, less if I'm focused on the issue and not chatting on IIS at the same time
For me it's not the setup time so much as the weight of carrying out a G11. Fingers crossed the observatory is not too far away
