There is some essential information that every beginning amateur astronomer should know. Ben Balmages, from the Starry Knights Foothill High School Astronomy Club, has assembled a nice practical list. They become inaccurate only over hundreds to thousands of years. The stars never move in relation to each other.
All stars rise in the east and set in the west .
Some stars are visible every night of the year, all night long . This is due to their proximity to Polaris, the North Star. Circumpolar stars rotate counterclockwise around the North Star. Polaris is the only star that is always in the same spot. In a month the stars rise and set two hours earlier.