Call for Presentations

This year we are pushing 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 scheduled with a panel of experts in alt-az drives, plate solving, astrophotography, and software.

We want talks on spectroscopy! (And we have one!) 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? Hopefully next year!?)

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 will have three sessions 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. Online attendees are encouraged to do the same, and two of the sessions will prioritize “remote” time zones like European Central and Australian Eastern.

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