I think most things in this hobby are 'no pain, no gain'! It takes me, probably, over an hour to set up my equipment and then it quite often clouds over just as I go out after letting the 'scope cool down for an hour or so. Either that, or it remains clear, but my equipment doesn't want to communicate between its various parts.
I had a look at your Flickr pages. You have some lovely shots of the various phases of the Moon. Good definition even when zoomed in.
Despite using a Bahtinov mask and 'Bahtinov Aid' in APT, I think my focus is a bit on the soft side. It was, however, the first time I had done any serious astrophotography for such a long time that I decided to post anyway.