Call for Presentations

This year we are going to push in the direction of more accessibility to the amateur community at-large while still keeping tabs on some of our traditional topics.

 One area of great interest is evaluating possibilities in DIY smart scopes, as there seems to be a market cutoff at 6” aperture and higher. An open-forum discussion is planned with people very experienced in alt-az drives, plate solving, astrophotography, and software.

We want talks on spectroscopy! Any part of design, build, calibrate, capture data, and analyze. We’ve seen spectroheliographs start to produce showpiece images of the Sun in all wavebands, so how about telling us how that’s done?

Got any other cool solar scope ideas or mods? Bring them!

And since team imaging is so good, then what about team sketching?

Bring your gear! Got something novel to share? We want to know all about it! Don’t want to put together a presentation? That’s OK, we would like to have a session where people can take the microphone and camera for 5 minutes to give us high-level overviews of their stuff, and then you can share more details one-on-one during our social hours.

Everyone is invited to attend! We conduct our conference online as well as in-person, and we get attendees from across the globe.

Everyone is invited to present something. It’s not strictly telescope making either, anything truly novel in the amateur world is of great interest to us.

“You don’t own it until you’ve drilled a hole in it.” - Jerry Oltion