Topic for June 5 membership meeting?

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wkocken
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Topic for June 5 membership meeting?

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What is it?
Bill Kocken
16" f4.5 - home built truss design
8"f6 home built dob
102f7 Explore Scientific APO with Ioptron ZEQ25GT mount
4.5 Orion Starblast
60mm Meade ETX
Homemade equatorial platform
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merle
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Re: Topic for June 5 membership meeting?

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Last I heard, Bill Volna will be speaking.
Clear skies,
Merle Hiltner
MAS Eagle Lake Observatory
Onan Observatory • Sylvia A. Casby Observatory • HotSpot Classroom
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Dick Jacobson
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Re: Topic for June 5 membership meeting?

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If it really is Bill Volna, I strongly urge everyone to attend! Bill is a brilliant engineer and wonderful speaker. The presentations of his highly original telescope designs that he's given in previous meetings have been the most fascinating to me of all MAS meeting topics. I'd rank him at least on a par with John Dobson.
30-inch homemade Newtonian with periscope
20-inch homemade equatorial Newtonian with periscope
14-inch homemade equatorial Newtonian
10-inch Newtonian that folds flat
6-inch Russian Maksutov-Newtonian on Vixen equatorial mount
Too many small scopes and binoculars to mention
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