Podcaster: Tony Darnell, Adam Smith, Alexander Reinders and John Suffill

Title: Deep Astronomy: Top 5 Telescopes for Amateur Astronomy Under $500

Organization:  Deep Astronomy

Link : https://deepastronomy.space

Twitter @DeepAstronomy, https://facebook.com/DeepAstronomy

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/deepastronomy

Description: Looking to buy your first telescope? This hangout will let you know the best telescopes for under $500. Looking to get started in amateur astronomy but are confused about the telescope to start off with? Our advice has always been to never spend more than $500 on your first telescope. Why? Like many hobbies that many people start, they aren’t always sure they’ll stick with it or if it will hold their interest so keeping the monetary investment to a minimum makes a lot of sense.

Plus, the lesser expensive scopes tend to have the best qualities for a beginner: ease of use, light weight and wide field of view. In fact, in my 30+ years of observing through a telescope, the one I still use the most is the one I bought first and spent only $269 on: a four-inch reflector.

Bio: Tony Darnell is the owner of Deep Astronomy website and a host for the same hangout channel in Youtube. He has worked in the field of astronomy all my life, his first job was at a school district planetarium in Boulder, Colorado. With the exception of a stint in the Army in the 1980’s he heas worked in many aspects of astronomical research.

Most of his time has been spent writing software to retrieve, process and analyze data taken from telescopes. He has worked with data from some of the world’s largest ground-based and space-based telescopes: from the four meter Blanco telescope in Chile to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomy education has always been his passion and he has written articles for DeepAstronomy.space website and produce astronomy videos for YouTube on the DeepAstronomy channel.

Adam “Synergy” Smith is the owner of unseenpodcast.com

Alexander Reinders from Germany

John Suffil is an amateur astronomer in UK.

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