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Although winter nights are very cold, amateur astronomers have good reason the bundle themselves up into warm clothing to brave the chill. For one thing, the ecliptic is at its highest this time of year, so if you’re observing the planets, they’ll be well above the murky skies of the horizon, resulting in the best possible views. But the wintertime sky also contains some of the most spectacular deep sky objects, of which the Orion Nebula and the Pleiades are the best known.
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Monks, N. (2010). Winter. In: Go-To Telescopes Under Suburban Skies. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6851-7_2
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