Annual path polar chart for a star
I wrote some JavaScript to help answer my question. It's in terrible shape right now, but it plots the hourly position of Aldebaran in azimuth &amp; elevation when viewed from Dayton, Ohio, USA, every fortnight for a year:

http://fasiha.github.io/starpath/

The source code is at https://github.com/fasiha/starpath but everything in it is hardcoded. However, when I have a bit of time, I can make it into a nice little webapp where you can input your position and select a celestial object (or inputs its RA/dec) and see the same plot—possibly along with information about when the sun obscures it.