Have the same problem here but I only have to do 9 trips to the house and back again. A flight of stairs each way. Can't store the scope under the house as it isn't secure. Takes about 40 mins to set up and then align, usually just after dusk. Then the so and so's across the road turn on their spotlights (4 multi sets) around the bowling green, lights up my backyard very well.
Now I have one more added problem, during the floods out here the pipes running across my yard were damaged and had to be replaced. The plumbers dug up a strip 10 x 30 meters, you guessed it right through the only area in the yard I can use for observing. Anywhere else in the yard is either too close to buildings or trees. Then the rain set in and turned the whole yard into a mud puddle.
Adrian
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