Oregon Star Party Telescope Walkabout, 2026, conducted by Dave Kasnick

Dave Kasnick ran an excellent and well attended walkabout despite the smoke from regional fires.

The Oregon Star Party's Telescope Walkabout webpage.

Rob Brown: 16 inch f2.8 scope with a Tensegrity structure and a homemade silvered half-inch thick meniscus mirror. Scope weighs a world record lightweight 25 pounds (PSI of 0.1. PSI is pounds per square inch of aperture).

Rob Brown: solar projection scope (C8). The image that's projected is viewed through a large flat diagonal mirror.

Rob Brown: sun speculum reflector. No matter where the Sun is in the sky, the tube reflects the light to an unchanging point. The light can then be inspected with a spectroscope.

Aaron Reynolds: a beautiful wooden 12 inch 6 truss tube hexpod collimated design (inspired by Jonathan Pogsdon on CloudyNights). Sports a wire spider.

Craig Sterrett: 28 inch f4.5 with two homemade including home-spun software plate solving finders.

Brian Hayward: 17.5 inch altazimuth with trusses and lightweight upper cage. Coulter mirror with dew preventing heaters on the secondary.

Brian Hayward:homemade eyepiece.

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