In the March 2013 Sky & Telescope

March is Messier marathon season — your best chance to see all 109 objects in a single night. In this issue's Binocular Highlights column I talk about the prospects for a running successful marathon with only your binoculars.

In this month's Telescope Workshop column I describe my Outback Travelscope — an airline portable 8-inch I built for last November’s solar-eclipse trip to Australia where I got to enjoy several nights of observing in the outback, near Uluru.