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I tried this very exercise last year in November at Ballarat. I took the tube off each night and put it onto the back seat of the car parked next to the tripod, then put a large garbage bag over the tripod each night. When you park the scope, you can then turn it off, even unplug the battery if you like. The offsets for alignment must be stored in non volatile memory. You will need to make sure the ground it is sitting on is quite firm otherwise it may settle a bit overnight throwing the alignment out. If you don't get a star in the field you won't have a clue how much to move to find it and so will be unsuccessful.
The next morning I just put the tube back on and powered up, put the 40mm in to give the the widest possible view for the most likely success. Select "last alignment" and then went to Alpha Centauri. When I looked in the eyepiece both of them were clearly visible! Because this was in the south, and the scope was pointing south in the home position, slewing past the Sun was not a problem. If you are slewing to any stars that are north or higher up, I would suggest putting the cap on the scope before slewing.
I was able to see every bright star that was above the horizon down to Regulus. This was all done around mid day on a day in the mid 30's...it don't get much brighter than that! I could also see Jupiter as well but didn't try the other planets as they were dangerously close to the Sun or hadn't risen.
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