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Many people think identifying stars and constellations is a black art.
That's because they once tried it and gave up in frustration, victims of one of the many badly designed maps and aids sold to an unknowing public. Unrealistic constellation charts are the norm, showing blobby star patterns that look nothing like what you see in the sky. The instructions often seem written by people who've never found a star themselves. The worst offenders are the ones designed for children. These can be so dumbed down that it would take an Einstein to make them work.