Visual Observing

• Your equipment.

• Angular distance and locating objects.

• Using a Planisphere to locate constellations and bright stars.

• Some software that simulates the night-sky.

• Common reference books with star charts.

• Using a red dot finder to point your telescope.

• Using a Telrad to locate objects.

• Star hopping with a finderscope.

• Binoculars.

For details on those points, downoad the pdf file below.