Since I live in Houston, I make mine as portable as possible. Unless the planets are up, there isn't much point to taking it out.
Pretty much the only bright, obvious thing in astronomy is the moon. The planets, mainly Jupiter and Saturn are good targets. Every few years Mars is a good target.
Everything else (nebulae,clusters) requires a big telescope to be any more than a faint fuzzy patch.
I wrote a high school paper on lens grinding (40 years ago) and am still at awe with amateurs that grind their own. I could probably make one that could be use as privacy screens in leaded glass art.