I used to store Big Bertha inside the observatory and roll her out when we opened up.  One of the problems with that large telescope is it barely fit through the door and it took up a lot of space.  When George was visiting the observatory and opened it up he tripped over it's legs a few times in the dark one night.  I wasn't there to roll it out and George wasn't very happy to have a huge tripping hazard inside a dark observatory. . . .

It was to much of a hassle to leave it in there.  Here we see there is another binocular telescope in the photo which I also brought once in a while when we would open up.  So we have two telescopes outside ready for visitors to use in this photo.