I'd try to take on board some of the brightest stars in the sky as well
Nick theres not lots of them that are visible at one time ..but if you can revisit them easily you will get a better idea how the rotation of the sky sits with the constellations and make finding your way back to referance points
for finding deep sky stuff within them.
http://astronomyspace.suite101.com/a...rightest_stars
take care