Frustrating

Clear skies for the first time since I got my telescope.  Time to go give this astronomy lark a shot.  Set up the tripod, level it, get it pointing North.  Attach the mount.  Attempt polar alignment.  Not as easy as I was hoping.  Not even sure I'm looking at Polaris.  Never mind, lets crack on... Power up, enter coordinates for latitude & longitude, set the time, and off we go.  Now I'm supposed to use some stars to let the computer work out how close to aligned I am.  Except every time it stops there's nothing in the scope.  Bugger.  Try again.  Same result.  Getting cold.  
Okay lets go look at the moon.  Even I can find the moon... right?  Eventually.  Manage to focus - awesome view of the craters and you can see the edge, and craters and all kinds of stuff.  
So now to attach the camera.  Sounded easy when I was sat indoors!  But I seem to be missing a piece - the camera won't stay in place.  Start packing away, find the missing piece, reassemble, find the moon again, attach the camera.  Because my camera is so old there's no 'live view' so there's no way to tell whether it's in focus or not.  Keep snapping, reviewing, focusing until finally got this one.  It's not great, but it will stand as a starting point to judge progress against.

I fooled myself into thinking that this was gonna be easy.  Point the telescope up, let the computer do the rest.  Not even close.