Davin, I can only reiterate what Malcolm, Brent and Patrick have said. It's a great techniques to learn, and not as hard as you think, once you've been successful.
I use Tirion's Sky Atlas 2000 Taki's 8.5 Mag star Charts, and his 'Set C' charts here:
http://www.geocities.jp/toshimi_taki...5/atlas_85.htm
and JoseTorres' Tri Atlas sets here:
http://www.uv.es/jrtorres/triatlas.html
Years ago I used an overhead projector sheet and drew rings on it representing my fields of view for each of my eyepieces. Then I laid them over the star chart. That gave be a good indication of what to expect to see as I star hopped form the "reference star" to the DSO.
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Originally Posted by Paddy
I suspect everyone has their own unique way of noting "this funny flat trIangle leads to an L shape etc"
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This is how I star hop down to a 'T'
(or should I say, that funny little 'T' shape of stars)