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Reverend, have you got a tablet like an iPad or Android?
Install one of the excellent astronomy apps like Redshift, Distant Suns or Star Walk. They have a mode that uses the compass etc to display the stars which are in front of you when you hold them up. Then when someone says "it's in Canis Major" your app will help you find it.
These apps are only a few dollars. Sky Walk HD is $1.29 right now for an XMas special.
They're enormously simpler to use (in my opinion) than maps, and certainly a lot more useful than "face North!"
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