This. My dad taught me to some of the constellations when I was a wee lad and I tried to practice as much as I could after that, mostly because reading Jules Verne&#x27;s books does that to a kid.<p>Turned out it was pretty hard. I only got a chance to get <i>some</i> decent practice during the summer, which I often spent at my grandmother&#x27;s house in the countryside. Today, there&#x27;s a fair deal of light pollution even there and even well-known constellations are getting hard to identify. In my home city, at bloody 4 AM in the morning, on a very clear winter&#x27;s night, I could maybe see 30-40 stars from my parents&#x27; balcony, if I squinted a little.