Oregon Star Party 2006
Telescope Walkabout
Mel Bartels, August 2006,
images by Greg Babcock with photo of Greg's scope by Mark Thorson
Each year we hold a telescope walkabout at the Oregon Star
Party.
Telescope builders share their experiences making telescopes.
People walkabout the telescopes to enjoy the telescope making
experiences and to garner ideas for their own telescopes.
This year's theme is innovation: tracking ball
scopes, travel
scopes, string scopes, carbon fiber scopes, computerized dobs,
ceramic mirrors, and better eyepiece shading.
Jerry Oltien's 10 inch ballscope with clock drive that's adjustable for
latitude, featured in a recent Sky and Telescope magazine article
Merlin Raymond's trailered observatory
Jack Barne's computerized 17 inch dob
Chris Tribe's ultralight carbon and fishing rod 2 truss 14 inch
Mark Yonker's ceramic mirror 10 inch
Mark Yonker's collapsing scope
Greg Babcock's 10 inch travel scope
Chuck Dethloff's eyepiece shade - a number of scopes were
sporting shades by the end of the star party
Bob McGown's blue 12 inch
David Martin's 6 inch and 8 inch travel scopes
David Nemo's 20 inch string scope with 8 inch prototype
Enders and Petersen's 10 inch matching travel scopes
Gordona's scope [not on the walkabout]
Don Peckham's wireless handpad and laptop controlled scope
[not on the walkabout]
3 more scopes not on the walkabout
eof