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No 1: focus on the brighter objects. They are easy to see, easy to find and still visible if the sky gets a bit mucky.
Know a little about the objects. Just one or 2 facts. You will be thrown questions and the most common is "how far away is it?" If you don't know the answer to a question, just say so, don't guess Misinformation is not what we try to achieve.
If kids ask questions, I always try to say, "Great question!" before giving an answer, even if the question seems silly or it has already been asked 5 times!!
Last time I did a public event, there was a nearly full moon and hazy high cloud that mean I couldn't find any alignment stars to look for any objects. So I just made sure I found the moon and had a camera showing a live pic of it to my laptop. Had a crowd of at least 20 there the whole time over about 3 hours and the loved it. As a backup I had some of my images and some other images on the lappy so I could show them those and talk about the objects and how I had captured them.
Malcolm
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