[N1 (Mirko)]

Know how to figure out where the ecliptic is, ideally without any gadgets. Otherwiese flat batteries or some silly malfunction means you pack up and go home. Not good. A good way to achieve that is to know your constellations, especially those along the ecliptic/zodiac obviously (Scorpius is arguably the most prominent of those). The planets will always be near that line.

Edit: Saturn, for example, is currently near the front end of the Scorpion. It is by far the brightest object in that area. See attached pic, taken a couple of months ago. The view at present is still close enough to this.