Using a star map will be your best bet for assisting in finding where to look for constellations, depending on your location and time of year. It's different depending on where you live and on the seasons, so use something like AstroViewer that lets you enter your location and gives you a customized star map. read more
Constellations are composed of a collection bright stars which appear close to one other in the sky, but in reality are extremely far apart in space. Therefore, the shapes of the constellations that we can observe from Earth all depends on our point of view and location on the globe. read more
Second constellation that is so cool is big dipper (Ursa Major). If you know where the pole star is, because it always remain almost in the same position all throughout the year, you can easily identify the big dipper. If you can identify big dipper, you can easily identify the Cassiopeia which is just on the opposite side of the pole star. read more
This constellation lies in the Milky Way band, and its most prominent star is Altair, which is actually one of the closest naked eye stars to the earth. The top portion of Aquila forms a shallow inverted “V,” with Altair nearly the point. read more