[Davekyn (David)]

I injured myself…but that happens & I’ll soldier on… Just be careful & put some kind of elastic dust cover on the bottom of your scope to help keep the shed dust off your mirror. To move my 12” scope, I stand directly in front of it like a sumo wrestler with the red dot & other finders facing opisite. I then push my gut up against the tubular section whilst reaching either side to unscrew the tension controllers with my head to one side. Once loosened, I lift with my legs and balance the scope against my stomach as I stand. When done correctly you will be surprised just how effective this method can be. Takes a little practice, but once mastered you’ll simply walk the scope gut first out the door & into the yard…simply balance appropriately and head back to bring out the mount separately and simply follow the same procedure to plop it back in…You should always collimate regardless of using a trolley or not…its easy after you’ve done it several times and you’ll get good view each time because of it. Anyways that’s how I get around with my 12” DOB…I even leave my foam camping mattress (dew shield) wrapped around the top when doing all that above. I can even fit my Dob in my 4cyclinder sedan…I found using a trolley to move it around just as time consuming, if not more. Also Top Heavy where steps are concerned…Perhaps you will find a better way, but I can’t imagine a 10” being that hard to move around…let me know what the secret is to keeping the mount securely on the trolley, less of course you don’t have to worry about steps.
Tried the seeing tonight, but clouds kept coming in…I think the Jupiter 2 says Sunday night will have a transition about 10:10pm…that sound right…I seemed to get the mirror look the right way round by selecting “east west inversion”
Later
Dave