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what you are looking at is called orion - or orion's belt, the cloudy thing is called m42 or the great orion nebula..nebula are usually star forming regions of gas -though there are a couple of different types. binos reveal often what look like a star is in fact 2,3 or 4 or 5
apart from a star chart, i regularly use skymaps.com - they have a souterhn hemisphere sky map each month, with a list of binocular objects to locate - was terrific when starting out
also i would download & install stellarium to a computer..it is a simulator star map
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