With the snow melting over the warm weekend, there is finally some hope in our area for better observing conditions for astronomy. Light pollution is bad enough, but add snow cover and you further reduce the limiting magnitude of any observing site. Snow covers reflects light back into the sky and, around here, we have an abundance of light excess of light to reflect. Regaining some dark ground cover is certainly good news for me and my astronomy binoculars.

Maybe I'm bored, but I keep looking for ways to challenge my observing skills. Call me crazy, but my observing project for this spring is to see how many galaxies I can pick up in my binoculars. After all, spring is traditionally the time to hunt for galaxies, but a binocular astronomer would have to be crazy to try this under a magnitude 3.0 sky (and that's on a good night). Guess I'm just the gal for the job, then.