People should check out the free, open source sky atlas/planetarium software Stellarium:
A sort of Google maps for the heavens. You can download star catalogs with over 150 million stars.
It's amazing what you can do with it. Here's a little movie I made of the 2-day long transit of Uranus across the Sun as viewed from Neptune in the yer 46915: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU9yzUUMhqU