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

Jun 25 2026

Y Discussion on HN : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48683475

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Walking with Wallace

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Walking with Wallace

I wanted to try a new kind of post, to present Wallace, a 153mm f/2.8 ultra-wide-field telescope that I’ve built last year a bit more, but also try to share 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 ?…