[Solanum]

I recently moved to new place, while was just what we wanted except for one thing, I have a shockingly restricted view of the sky. I had the scope out the other night and estimated it to be about 20 deg by 45 deg and it is straight up, so right in Dobson's hole (so to speak!).

We're (hopefully) in this house for the long haul now, so does anyone have tips for coping with this sort of view. The obvious ones are to take the scope elsewhere for viewing (not very practical as it's a big scope, plus I have a young family, so can't disappear for hours on end in the evening - I could get a smaller more movable scope but don't have the cash after buying the house!), or meticulous planning for an evenings viewing (specific to a given evening and likely to be thrown out by mixed weather I guess). I do have an Argo Navis which should help with the latter.

Any tips?