A neat star-chart trick is to make a wire ring the size of your binocular's or finderscope's field of view.
A neat star-chart trick is to make a wire ring the size of your binocular's or finderscope's field of view. Slide it from point to point on the chart, and you'll see the star patterns that will appear in your view as you navigate the sky. Here we're narrowing in on NGC 2392, the Eskimo Nebula in Gemini (dark green symbol), using Sky Atlas 2000.0. See our star-hopping article to learn more on navigating the sky this way.