the stars that go to make the constellations are amongst myriads others and that makes it difficult to isolate them too.
Sure but most of the ancient ones are pretty obviously a group ... learn half a dozen in different parts of the sky that you can use as signposts & the rest is easy.
I challenge anyone to pick out Camelopardis as a group though - it's a big diffuse patch which looks empty in a suburban sky as there are no stars brighter than mag 4 - when star hopping in Cam I start from Auriga or Perseus as there is usually nothing obvious to start from.
