Learn their stars well and take the time with your binoculars to enjoy the general sky within each constellation. Your naked eye will be sufficient to find and learn some of the bright constellations such as Orion , Ursa Major , and Cassiopeia . You will need binoculars to see the dim ones such as Lacerta, Camelopardalis, and Cancer . Finally, you will use both the naked eye and binoculars to see constellations containing both bright and dim stars. Don't expect to learn all the constellations at once.
Many constellations are visible at night only during a particular season.
Plan on taking nearly a year to learn all the ones visible in this part of the northern hemisphere. Some constellations in the southern hemisphere, of course, are not viewable here at any time. E-mail us .