Building and hiking with Wallace, the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope

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Lucas Sifoni presents Wallace, a 153mm f/2.8 ultra-wide-field telescope that was built last year and shares more of the “outdoor” part of astronomy. I now spend a lot of time outside with running and hiking, and started to wonder how could I share that, the same question that emerged when I started observational astronomy, how can I share the views ? There are people wonderfully skilled at that, with astronomical drawing, like Serge Vieillard and I encourage you to browse his website. Of course we can’t ever share the visual experience, like we can’t share the sensorial experience of hiking or trail running, but we can try to give a few impressions The result is an “ambient impression”. I hope you’ll enjoy it as I did despite not being a capable videographers / photographer. See the