[doppler (Rick)]

Start with the bright stuff, jupiter, saturn then around the southern cross, point out the easy constellations, scorpius, sagittarius there are lots of nebula etc to keep you going and 2 hours goes pretty fast. If you are timing for the moon before 1st quater is best or a week after full. The moon rising at the end of a viewing sesion is always cool. Our local group does a few school viewing nights each year, we usually start with a talk about the telescopes a bit of basic sky orienteering (a laser pointer is great for this but most of us are cautious now aka the law) then start observing. You need to expect a few questions about sizes and distances of objects etc. Its handy to compare the nearest star say 2 light years away to say the small magellenic cloud 180,000 light years away (these are not the exact distances) good luck. I have a local church youth group star night this friday about 12 teens and a few parents our worst enemy is the clouds.