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Rick (and Dino too).
G'day. I met a human Go-To at Astrofest 2009 before I bought my Skywatcher 12" collapsable Dob. He pushed a 25" SDM around the sky to give the most amazing tour of Deep Sky Objects. It was my second time ever looking through a telescope. His first bit of advice to me was, "Learn to identify the 20 brightest stars".
Moving on from the 20 brightest stars, I have found the book, "Star Watch - The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to Finding, Observing and Learning about Over 125 Celestial Objects" to be very useful in learning star-hops to an ever growing list of 'usual suspects'.
After several months of borrowing copy from the local library, I bought my own copy through Borders Australia On-Line. Their RRP is currently $23.99, but with reasonably regular Discount Voucher Sales it drops to $17.99.
Happy Hunting.
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