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Bruce,
A star globe helps a lot to learn the navigation stars.
You set it for your latitude and time, and orient
along the meridian, and it gives you
a true picture of the sky, with all important stars names.

You do this before the observation and record the asimuths and alts
of the stars as given by the globe.

Then you use your compass and easily identify them.

Also useful when a single star is visible through a hole in the clouds.
Then you take its altitude and approximate asimuth with a compass,
and quickly find it on the globe.

Alex.

On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Bruce J. Pennino wrote:

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> I'm an improving CN beginner at about 42N 70 W and starting to take star 
sights facing east on Cape Cod.  I also can face west looking over Cape Cod 
Bay. Good views except to NNW and south.  I amazed myself the other night and 
sighted Polaris with 1 NM error.Did it a second night to prove not a fluke. A 
fellow in parking lot pointed out northern cross, summer triangle, Vega, 
Deneb and Altair. All easily used and got a reasonable fix.
>
> Went out last night and not many early stars to see to the SSW and west. The 
Naval Oceanography Portal is very helpful, but which stars come out first?  
My goal is learn a few very bright stars in each season. Alkaid is easily 
seen, but night has fallen? To the west,there were three stars in a curving 
upward arc; Denebola ,Mars and Saturn? Arcturus ? Still trying to make sense 
of LMT of Meridian  Passage etc. Antares is pretty low?
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce P
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