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Originally Posted by Renato1
Try atlas mopping. Find a well known object on one page of your atlas, then try find everything else plotted around that object, and then try find everything else plotted on the entire page.
I had photocopies of my atlases out under the sky (in those plastic display folders). After every session, I'd use a fluorescent green highlighter pen to mark the objects I'd seen. Then next time I went out, I'd ignore the ones I had marked as already seen.
I finally rang out of interesting new things to see after around 1500 objects with my C8 and 3300 objects with my 14.5" dob (things got monotonous after this, as all that was left were very faint tiny fuzzy patches), and had to await visits to the northern hemisphere for excitement with new stuff.
Regards,
Renato
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That's a great idea, Renato! I have a copy of mine in plastic sheets also with the brightest stars in each constellation highlighted in yellow to make it easier to navigate. I think I will give this a try next time
I also thought I'd just choose ONE object for each session and focus on only trying to find that one thing. That's what I did with Centaurus A and NGC3918. It took a couple of sessions but I got there!