Navigation

This is the beginning of Navigation puzzle. Beginner puzzles will have fewer of what we call rings (green arrow) and advanced puzzlers may see more rings.  The RED arrow points out a Line. Think of yer navigation as a compass. The stars will "fall" toward the Center of the compass along the Lines.  The Yellow arrow points out one of the three Wheels. These wheels move left or right using the arrow keys on a keyboard. The spacebar hurries the stars however should be avoided until you are proficient at the puzzle.  The rings (green arrow) will NOT move.  The goal is to fill the rings with the same color star. 

A really good navigator knows they can and should leave a space open as the Yellow arrow points out. In this puzzle I purposely filled the blue ring with a Yellow star. (okay actually I was chatting in crew chat and forgot to watch). What I should have done was left that spot empty and instead let the yellow star land in the spot the yellow arrow points to. Your goal should be to finish the center ring then work on the middle.  The reason I point out the open space is that this can be used to catch the star you need if it doesn't show up right away. If the bottom wheel fills up begin "stacking" stars onto the middle wheel.

Here you see I have "filled" the smallest wheel and the middle wheel. Now I am working the outside wheel. The blue ring/yellow star issue is not been "fixed".... yet.  Pay attention to the Yellow star entering the Large wheel from bottom right of picture. It will "land" on the white star. Just to the left of that white is an important red star.  Here I will let the Yellow star land, move the top wheel to the right and break the "stack" of three yellow. The middle Wheel will turn left to drop that blue star into its spot then move back to the right two spaces...our red star fills the red ring. All that is left to do is "catch" a white and move it into the ring on the Large wheel.
** When the rings begin filling up I begin watching for ways to "stack" groups of three. Occasionally you will get lucky and be able to break groups of three horizontally on the wheels.  Breaking any group of three that allows a star to fall into a ring and finish a puzzle earns you extra points.
*** once you are good at moving the wheels and watching for groups of three you should begin to use the space bar. The more constellations you complete the better.
*****Each route has a set pattern to the stars! Watch for this. As you learn the pattern your score will go up. 
********* Finally, whether you are navigating for memorization of routes, stats or just to get the ships speed up,  Don't stress over the score just enjoy the stars. Duty navigation can be tricky, boring, annoying or FUN depending on how you look at it.