Yep annoying not having an observatory or in my case not even a backyard. At least you are only travelling across the backyard to setup....I have to do this everytime I go out to my dark sky site:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...04160129/large
Imagine the anguish when the cloud comes over then, or the lappie fails, or I forget a critical component...like the whole lappie
Mike