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Instead of star names, how does one get to list the sky by constellations instead?

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Instead of star names, how does one get to list the sky by constellations instead?

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In the SkyGazer “Display” menu, choose “Constellations”, and then pick the subset you want. You can also choose whether it should display constellation area boundaries, or the “stick figures”. (One annoying thing: in this software version, it seems hard to turn the constellations off once they are displayed. It might be a bug. If anyone figures out how to do this, let me know!) You can also click on an area of the sky to make it display information about the constellation corresponding to that region of the sky. I’m still confused about where your horizon is on the sky chart When you use a sky chart (on SkyGazer or a paper chart), you orient yourself facing some particular direction (say, north), and then orient the chart in front of you such that the lower edge of the circle labeled north is down (on SkyGazer, you click the buttons to rotate; if your chart is on a piece of paper, you just rotate the paper). This lower edge of the circle represents the horizon you are facing. The

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