[ATM] Wanted: Wow Objects for Winter Star Party - Mid Northern Lattitude

["RC Stargazer" <david@tabor.com>]

Hi,

As I'd mentioned in some posts a long while back, my daughter's class is 
going to be studying Astronomy, and we've been asked to bring in our scopes 
to show the class, as well as helping out with a star party they'll do when 
the unit is complete.

I just recently found out that my daughter's class (5th & 6th graders) is 
going to be doing their astronomy unit over the winter, and will likely have 
the star party in February or March.  As you may have guessed, this makes 
for extremely cold viewing in central Vermont (average evening temps range 
around 0F to 20F [-17C to -7C]).

I've been invited to bring my scope to help out, which I'm glad to do, but 
have only had one cold winter to view with my scope so far, so I'm not 
really comfortable with the winter wow objects.

Can anyone give me some other early evening objects that are good wows as 
well as easy to find in an 8" dob (No goto)?  Then I'll start studying up on 
them, and practicing locating them as soon as they are start 'coming 
around'.

I also like to be able to give info and tell stories when I'm showing 
objects, and keeping interest on astronomy instead of the cold will be 
difficult that time of year.  So, if you have a special way of talking about 
the wow object, it would be appreciated if you'd forward a quick note on 
that, too.

Thanks, in advance!
Dave 

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