Podcaster: Tony Darnell, Kevin M. Gill, John Suffill, Adam Smith and Alexander Reinders 
Title: Backyard Observatories and Viewer Questions
Organization: Deep Astronomy
Link : https://deepastronomy.space
Twitter @DeepAstronomy, https://facebook.com/DeepAstronomy
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/deepastronomy
Description:In today’s discussion, we’re going to look at some backyard observatories. Why? Well, they make the decision to go out for a night with you telescope easier to make. Observatories let you keep your telescope setup and aligned all the time, which means you just walk out your back door, open your observatory and start looking up! We’ll talk about what characteristics a decent backyard observatory should have, how much or how little you need to spend and talk about what others have done. We’ve also compiled some good questions over the months of doing Telescope Talk and we’ll address some of them in this hangout.
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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