• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Live somewhere dark enough and gain pattern recognition

    Edit: This was kind of unhelpful, so I’ll also recommend Stellarium. The Big Dipper is comprised of very bright stars, and is visible in the northern hemisphere year-round, so it’s a good first constellation to learn. Once you get used to how it looks both on stellarium and in the night sky, you’ll be better equipped to extrapolate how other constellations should look in the night sky, given how they look on stellarium. Once you start building those neural pathways, it gets a lot easier.

    I realize this is basically just “git gud” but for astronomy, but it really is a matter of experience, not skill