Yes, count me in here also.
Reflectors are cheaper and also you usually get more aperture for a given amount of money.
In essence the old cliche; 'more bang for your buck'.
Only a personal opinion.
But to sum up in one word...no.
If you are on a limited budget (as most of us are) look at a set of binoculars or even put a few more dollars in and look for a good used 6 or 8 inch Newtonian.
If you are interested in Astronomy don't have a first bad experience...
Played drums (Pearl) in a 'oldies rock type band ' years ago.
I still have bongos and a bodhran that I enjoy when I get bored.
We have a local Samba band that I have on occasion thought of joining and some day just might have the intestinal fortitude to do it.
As all ready mentioned here.
Long before the Sun goes to the Red Giant stage we should have learned how to control vast amounts of energy and have developed technology that today hasn’t even been thought of.
That is of course, provide we haven’t succumb to some sort of catastrophic event...
I was under the same impression. I thought perhaps he was interested in solar ‘noise’ or solar flares. Both of which ‘splatter’ over the radio spectrum into the VLF range and relatively easy to receive on simple VLF receivers.
It would certainly be advantageous to have a very long antenna but...
Hi S.Vasojevic
Antenna are much more critical in a transmit mode than receive in the lower end of the frequency spectrum.
A good signal to noise ratio can be achieved with a simple (so called) long wire or a magnetic loop antenna.
This is why low end commercial AM band radios will work with...
Not totally sure on this but I think down in the area of 3 khz is the lowest electromagnetic frequency receivable.
They used the ELF at one time to communicate with submarines. Not sure if they still do.
Lots of natural ‘stuff’ in the low frequency band though, including lighting whistles...
In the east we have been escaping the Midwest cold weather. However! a high pressure system to the north will push a lot of that fright air in for a week or so beginning over the weekend.
Temp here right now -0.2°C with light snow pellets.
The low temp last night was -5.3°C.
I dislike the...
Hi bassplayer 142
Just a personal opinion here.
The scope is probably worth $150 if everything is working properly.
If it is out of alignment, it can be corrected (collimated).
However, the pictures you mentioned, I looked at, and I have some problems with them from a being 114mm...
LOL, how true, yes, I guess that applies to a lot of us.
The sky transparency here has been crappy lately. Perhaps in the next few days things will improve. But, It will probably have faded away by then.