Find your way among the stars.

Start with a shape you can recognize. Learn its landmarks, then look for it among the real stars.

How to find Orion in the night sky

Find Orion’s Belt, recognize the Hunter’s shape and learn when to look, using the real Poppot sky.

Recognize the Big Dipper’s seven stars, distinguish it from the Little Dipper and use its pointers to find north.

Find Aldebaran, recognize the Hyades V and tell the Bull’s head apart from the compact Pleiades cluster.

Follow Orion’s Belt to Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, then recognise the Greater Dog in Poppot’s sky.

Start from Orion to find Castor and Pollux, then recognise both figures of Gemini in Poppot’s sky.

Find Crux’s four main stars, avoid the False Cross and understand how this landmark helps you find south.