Star Hopping 101

Good Charts

How to Find Stuff

Night Myopia

Easier to Find Stuff in Dark Sky

Mag 5.5 Skies

Urban Skies

Mapping from Charts to the Sky

View in Newtonian

View in SCT

Star Hop Example

Locate Area Visually

Locate Area Visually

Start the Hop

Verify Rotation

Plot the Movement

M37 View in Eyepiece

Hop to M37&M38

Hop to M37&M38

Some other hints

How to see stuff

References

Planetarium Programs

Paper Charts

More References