For each season, this plan presents major constellations in the order they set. That gives a look at objects while they are still in the sky.

Summer

• Ursa Major (about 9:00 pm)
  • Sketch its initial position
  • Alcor and Mizar
  • Pointer stars
• Virgo
  • Zodiacal constellation
  • Spica
• Coma Berenices
  • Pretty open cluster
• Canis Venatici
  • Cor Corelli (red star)
• Libra
  • Zodiacal constellation
• Bootes
  • Arcturus (red/yellow star)
• Draco
  • Large circumpolar constellation
• Corona Borealis
  • Pretty open cluster
• Hercules
  • M13
• Scorpius
  • Zodiacal constellation
  • M4
• Cephus
  • Circumpolar constellation, part of a fall grouping
• Cygnus
  • Albiero (yellow star and blue double star)
  • Deneb
• Aquilla
  • Altair
• Lyra
  • Vega (blue star)
  • Ring Nebula
• Summer Triangle
  • Asterism (Vega, Deneb, Altair)
• Milky Way
  • Our own galaxy
• Delphinus
  • Small constellation, related to Aquilla in story)
• Sagittarius
  • Zodiacal constellation
  • M6
  • M7
  • Center of the Milky Way with its black hole
• Capricornus
  • Zodiacal constellation
• Ursa Major again (about 11 pm)
  • Sketch change in position
• Ursa Minor
  • Polaris
  • Engagement Ring