Any amatuer astronomers here?

[IMADreamer]

The earth only tilts 23.5 degrees so you are only losing 23.5 degrees of sky visibility from your normal viewing at any point in the year. For example you can't see Orion in the summer, but it's very prominent in the winter. Also you can see completely different constellations in the southern hemisphere than in the northern.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Right. The tilt isn't what threw me off, it's the rotation. If you put put a tack in a board, then draw a circle around that to represent the earth's orbit then put a marble somewhere on that orbit, it seems like you would only be able to see 'outward' at night (as the sun's light blinds the stars during the day). Then move that marble to the other side of the tack/sun, rotate it away from the tack/sun and it would seem as if you'd be looking at a completely different part of the sky. But, in reality, the cone/sphere of observation is going to have a ton of overlap due to how far out can be seen (thousands of light years). So, that 200M/300M mile distance the earth moves doesn't make much of a difference.