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Seasonal Tours

Check out SkyGuide's seasonal tours in the QuiCk Find section for pointers on finding the major constellations for each season of the year.

The trick to successfully learning the night sky is to use easily recognizable star patterns to find the more difficult ones—just like we used the Big Dipper's stars to find Polaris.

Don't try to learn the entire sky on your first night out. Begin by learning the major constellations and then search out the more obscure patterns as the need and challenge arise.

Like riding a bicycle, once you know a constellation, it's hard to forget it.