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John Denker mentioned being able to find celestial objects by knowing where to look relative to easily observed stars. Bernard
Cleyet correctly referred to this as star hopping and mentioned how difficult this can be when you live in an area with "poor sky."
good rigid contact lenses
No amount of "see that bright star there... now move up and to the left about two hand
widths..." seems to get them to see things that even I see.
their coats were chosen more for
style than warmth. (For subsequent labs this eventually improved.)
it in the finder scope, or there is a nearby star you can see in the finder and the desired object is close enough that you don't
have to move more than one finder field of view... you're not going to find it.
We have so much water vapor and so much light
pollution that Andromeda Galaxy is not usually visible with the naked eye, and also typically not visible in a one-inch finder
scope.
... use the setting circles to find something.
... A neat thing we did this way was find Venus in the daytime sky