What a story! So many ups and downs! If it was a movie script I would say it’s over the top and hard to believe in! It would make for an eventful decade for a bunch of friends let alone A SINGLE YEAR in ONE person’s live! INSPIRING. THRILLING, TOUCHING! … and that hight note finish with Alexis/Meade 8” restoration’s conclusion - just perfect! I wish you less astro-horrors and as many WOWs and gasps of amazement this coming year! Stay strong, Tsula!❤
Tsula, I've really enjoyed your astronomic dramas over the past year. I'm glad you are still here the share your enthusiasm and images. I'm looking forward to seeing your videos in 2025. Clear skies!
Eclipse, aurora and comet … what an amazing astronomical year indeed! Many thanks for all your informative and entertaining videos … can’t wait to see what 2025 has in store for us! Happy New Year and dark skies forever! 🔭🌞
Your enthusiasm is contagious as usual and your perseverance despite some serious mishaps is inspiring. I am looking forward to great astronomical observations in 2025. Best wishes and clear skys.
Yes, this year was amazing for astronomy. The Eclipse, the Aurora, and the Comet are definitely in my top 3 coolest things i’ve ever seen, plus I saw my brightest meteor i’ve ever seen back in May during the second night of the historic aurora storm. But, this year hasn’t been great mentally for me, I won’t go into too much detail but I started feeling depressed. Every time you upload, It cheers me up a lot, so thank you Tsula!
Thank you, Jim. I hope you got to see most of them and all the coming ones as well. There are going to be a couple of hum dingers next year! Take care and happy new year.
Hi Tsula, this year will take some beating! Not only for the astronomy, but all the up and downs of your adventures! You've had a rollercoaster year of exceptional events, some good, some bad, yet you are still going strong! I am devastated to hear about Artemis and will mount a search here to see if I can scource a replacement corrector plate for your Meade Lx 90 12" ( please confirm I have the right model! ) You never know...we might find one so don't loose hope! Thanks so much for sharing a wonderful year of exceptional astronomical events and adventures. I am thankful you came through it all safe and unharmed and with a wealth if beautiful photos to look back on. Don't give up on Artemis, in the same way your 8 inch has a new life, I feel sure that something good will happen, after all this is the season of miracles, so don't loose hope! Take care, sending best wishes and dark skies to you 🤗✨🌙✨
Hi Tsula, me again!! I have tried some contacts but no one has anything available in replacement corrector plates. The general feeling is that damage like this is considered an insurance write off, as there are no spares and it would be difficult to repair. You might be covered by insurance and if so, there are still 12" LX 90 models available to buy new, so it might be possible to replace "Artemis" and still have a 12" Meade. Thinking of you and wishing you good luck with this, Linda. 🤗✨🌙✨
Linda: First of all, thank you so much for all of your kind and supportive comments throughout the year; they have really kept me going when I have felt down and like giving up. I really appreciate it. As for Artemis, I have been searching and searching everywhere I know to look and like you have come up with nothing. But I am still trying for a replacement. One of the repair shops offered to write up an invoice for me to submit to my insurance company. I'm still working on possible solutions. Thank you again. Best wishes and dark skies to you in 2025 and years to come.
Hi Tsula, Just wanted to wish you a Happy New Year , good health and dark skies for 2025! I hope the new year brings you lots of adventures and good luck, after the tough times last year. Most of all, I wish you that corrector plate!....Still searching over here! Looking forwzrd to the first 2025 adventure, take care, Linda 🤗✨🌙✨
@@lindafinch8983 Hi Linda (I thought you preferred Lynn): Happy new year to you! It is supposed to clear up in about an hour (finally after a month of clouds and more clouds) and there is supposed to be another geomagnetic storm tonight (it's currently new year's eve). Also, I found out today that Orion has now listed their entire inventory at their former headquarters in Watsonville, for sale to the public and I checked it and they have a Meade 12" LX90 for sale. Watsonville is about an hour drive from my house in California and I could easily pick it up if I won the auction. The auction premium is steep though-- 18% and then you also have to pay CA sales tax of 9.75%. But I am going to register for the auction just to see how it goes. Bidding starts at $50. I hope you have a wonderful and happy new year with lots of clear dark skies! Take care.
Hi Tsula, I do prefer Lynn, but it was very late when I sent the message and I signed off without thinking! I really hope you have some luck with that auction, it might just solve your problems. I've not had any success in finding a corrector plate, but there are still some 12" models available in Europe for sale, so if the auction diesn't work out that might interest you.. I will continue searching and if I find a corrector plate you'll probably hear my Whoop of joy out there in USA! I wish you success, it would be nice to think of you out there with "Artemis 2" in the near future! Take care Lynn. 🤗✨🌙✨
Great year in review! So sorry to hear that your beloved 12” is broken 😢, but I’m sure something will come along. Either a repair or a replacement. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and wishing you clear skies and fantastic views in 2025!
Hi Tsula, I thoroughly enjoyed your channel this year and I'm glad that I found it. Your year end review brought back many memories of my own astronomical adventures topped by the total solar eclipse which I viewed with my daughter and her family from just south of Cleveland, Ohio. The aurorae and the comet were also great memories. You are inspiring me to get out there more often in the upcoming year. Happy New Year to you. 🙂
Thank you. I'm glad you liked my review of all the great astronomical events of 2024, and had some great experiences of your own. I am over the moon that you have been inspired by my little channel to get out there more often. Happy new year to you and your family.
Tsula, I love your channel and passion for astronomy! 2024 was a great year for me too with the hobby. I did several multi day star parties, met lots of great people, and really started honing my skills and building my gear! I just took the plunge into astrophotography, so 2025 should be a great year too! I got my astrophotography gear for Christmas. I'm very sorry to hear about your stolen and damaged gear 😞
Thank you. That's wonderful that you accomplished so much with the hobby in 2024. I wish you all the best in 2025 and that you get some great astro pics with your new gear. Take care and thank you for your well wishes.
@tsulasbigadventures thank you! If I may suggest, you should definitely do some multi day star parties in good dark sky locations if you can. I've found them to be invaluable ways to learn, meet people, and get long stretches of observing in. I've also met and seen other TH-camrs at these events.
@@davidstaiti OK. I have a list of upcoming star parties on my website. My local club has one each month but they sell out quickly and those are just one night a month. A multi day would be better.
dont give up on artemis, ed ting dropped a scope and broke the corrector plate. some one had one laying around and even though it was replaced it still worked. im sure some one some where has the parts sitting around. even though meade is gone the parts they had went somewhere and do exist.
You're doing a fantastic job! I have a quick question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
Wonderful video, but you forgot to mention, as another highlight of the 2024 astronomical year, the growth of a certain TH-cam channel called Tsula's Big Adventures. 🙂
I saw a beautiful display of Nacreous Clouds last night and the display lasted about 2 hours after sunset because they are so high they catch the Sun a good while after it's set . Strange how these strange cloud types are appearing in recent years.I never used to see Noctilucent or Nacreous Clouds until about the last 5 years.Fairbanks sounds really cold .The furthest north I've ever been in Narvik in Norway which is about 200 km north of the Artic Circle but it wasn't too cold about 0c although it was in an April.
I don't know about a nacreous clouds but I read that people see more Noctilucent Clouds these days because of pollution. Sad but I would still like to see them one day.
Artemis fell off the mount while filming and no video? I can only imagine the horror you felt. If it is not too painful, there is a cautionary lesson that would be beneficial to others about how such a thing could happen to an experienced observer such as yourself.
It is on video but it is so painful for me to watch it that I cannot bring myself to show it to the public. I felt sick to my stomach when it happened.
I never really thought it about it before this year when I saw so many, how much northern lights diminish the transparency. I actually pulled my telescope out to star gaze that night of the G5 Storm but I realized it was far too bright to star gaze. So, I just sat back and enjoyed the show.
Yes. I showed some pages in an earlier video about observing the moon, I think. th-cam.com/video/fi1-vmUGr-A/w-d-xo.html But it's a 20 minute video. Maybe I can make a blog post today on my website showing some pages from my log book and how to keep one. My website is tsulasbigadventures dot com
TSULA! I Thought I already posted this but I don't see what I thought I posted -- First the link -- And your christmas present: th-cam.com/video/AmBkSX8ivmY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=X6gx3BUcWFP8aUHl I had found the URL's for 8'', 10'', and 12'' Meades but I guess something happened. And of course you love Orion -- EVERYTHING from Orion is being auctioned. Also I grew up in Virginia Beach. I think I was in that same total eclipse you were in. I don't remember it being a school day but maybe I was too young for school. I came around the bend in '63.
Brad: Thank you for the information but after the heart breaking and untimely death of Artemis I decided to make a major purchase from another American Company very much still in business. Stay tuned to find out! Yes, I believe that eclipse happened when school was out because I distinctly recall standing on the driveway of our family home in South Carolina and looking at a projection of the eclipse on the driveway. I asked Daddy if I could look through his little white Tasco refractor and he said no it was dangerous.
I live way over in central NC and have been involved in stargazing since the 90s. My first real scope was a Meade LX 10 which I still have, so I'm SO sorry to hear about your Artemis taking a tumble! 😮 I hope you find a replacement soon. I have an older 10" Meade OTA I plan to use once I can acquire a suitable mount. It's been in storage for quite some time due to trips back and forth to Vietnam and finally getting married. I let my wife see Jupiter for her first time just the other night. She is not a big fan of the cold! I recently stumbled on your channel and really enjoy your down to earth presentations. You have helped inspire me to reignite my interest in astronomy. Hope this year brings you nothing but more great adventures without any more misfortune. Looking forward to more of your very helpful and interesting content.
Thank you so much. That is so kind of you to say. My dear mother lived in Raleigh for a long time and I spent many Christmases there. She was not a fan of the cold either. But that's great you showed your wife Jupiter in your telescope and I'm humbled that I have inspired you to get back out there and enjoy the night sky.
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It was an honor and a pleasure to work on this telescope. Thank you Tsula. I hope many more adventures for you in 2025.
You're welcome. Best wishes to you and your father in the new year.
What a story! So many ups and downs! If it was a movie script I would say it’s over the top and hard to believe in! It would make for an eventful decade for a bunch of friends let alone A SINGLE YEAR in ONE person’s live! INSPIRING. THRILLING, TOUCHING! … and that hight note finish with Alexis/Meade 8” restoration’s conclusion - just perfect! I wish you less astro-horrors and as many WOWs and gasps of amazement this coming year! Stay strong, Tsula!❤
Aw. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
So sorry to hear about Artemis! You've had a rough year, gear-wise. 2025 will be better - you're due for some good luck! Clear skies, Tsula!
Great summary! You had a fantastic year… and helped renew my love for astronomy.
Thank you for your videos… I really do appreciate your efforts.
Thank you! A comment like yours really keeps me going. Thanks so much.
Tsula, I've really enjoyed your astronomic dramas over the past year. I'm glad you are still here the share your enthusiasm and images. I'm looking forward to seeing your videos in 2025. Clear skies!
Leon: Thank you so much. Best wishes and clear skies to you as well.
Eclipse, aurora and comet … what an amazing astronomical year indeed! Many thanks for all your informative and entertaining videos … can’t wait to see what 2025 has in store for us! Happy New Year and dark skies forever! 🔭🌞
Your enthusiasm is contagious as usual and your perseverance despite some serious mishaps is inspiring. I am looking forward to great astronomical observations in 2025. Best wishes and clear skys.
Thank you! Best wishes for 2025 to you as well and clear skies!
Yes, this year was amazing for astronomy. The Eclipse, the Aurora, and the Comet are definitely in my top 3 coolest things i’ve ever seen, plus I saw my brightest meteor i’ve ever seen back in May during the second night of the historic aurora storm.
But, this year hasn’t been great mentally for me, I won’t go into too much detail but I started feeling depressed. Every time you upload, It cheers me up a lot, so thank you Tsula!
Aw. Brody, I'm sorry to hear that but glad to hear that my videos are cheering you up. Hang in there.
@ Thank you Tsula, I really appreciate what you do
Wow! This year WAS a banner year, and no mistake! I hope your 2025 will bring you positive and memorable experiences, too. Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!
Thank you, Jim. I hope you got to see most of them and all the coming ones as well. There are going to be a couple of hum dingers next year! Take care and happy new year.
Hi Tsula, this year will take some beating! Not only for the astronomy, but all the up and downs of your adventures! You've had a rollercoaster year of exceptional events, some good, some bad, yet you are still going strong! I am devastated to hear about Artemis and will mount a search here to see if I can scource a replacement corrector plate for your Meade Lx 90 12" ( please confirm I have the right model! )
You never know...we might find one so don't loose hope! Thanks so much for sharing a wonderful year of exceptional astronomical events and adventures. I am thankful you came through it all safe and unharmed and with a wealth if beautiful photos to look back on. Don't give up on Artemis, in the same way your 8 inch has a new life, I feel sure that something good will happen, after all this is the season of miracles, so don't loose hope!
Take care, sending best wishes and dark skies to you 🤗✨🌙✨
Hi Tsula, me again!! I have tried some contacts but no one has anything available in replacement corrector plates. The general feeling is that damage like this is considered an insurance write off, as there are no spares and it would be difficult to repair.
You might be covered by insurance and if so, there are still 12" LX 90 models available to buy new, so it might be possible to replace "Artemis" and still have a 12" Meade. Thinking of you and wishing you good luck with this, Linda.
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Linda: First of all, thank you so much for all of your kind and supportive comments throughout the year; they have really kept me going when I have felt down and like giving up. I really appreciate it. As for Artemis, I have been searching and searching everywhere I know to look and like you have come up with nothing. But I am still trying for a replacement. One of the repair shops offered to write up an invoice for me to submit to my insurance company. I'm still working on possible solutions. Thank you again. Best wishes and dark skies to you in 2025 and years to come.
Hi Tsula, Just wanted to wish you a Happy New Year , good health and dark skies for 2025! I hope the new year brings you lots of adventures and good luck, after the tough times last year.
Most of all, I wish you that corrector plate!....Still searching over here! Looking forwzrd to the first 2025 adventure, take care, Linda
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@@lindafinch8983 Hi Linda (I thought you preferred Lynn): Happy new year to you! It is supposed to clear up in about an hour (finally after a month of clouds and more clouds) and there is supposed to be another geomagnetic storm tonight (it's currently new year's eve). Also, I found out today that Orion has now listed their entire inventory at their former headquarters in Watsonville, for sale to the public and I checked it and they have a Meade 12" LX90 for sale. Watsonville is about an hour drive from my house in California and I could easily pick it up if I won the auction. The auction premium is steep though-- 18% and then you also have to pay CA sales tax of 9.75%. But I am going to register for the auction just to see how it goes. Bidding starts at $50. I hope you have a wonderful and happy new year with lots of clear dark skies! Take care.
Hi Tsula, I do prefer Lynn, but it was very late when I sent the message and I signed off without thinking! I really hope you have some luck with that auction, it might just solve your problems. I've not had any success in finding a corrector plate, but there are still some 12" models available in Europe for sale, so if the auction diesn't work out that might interest you.. I will continue searching and if I find a corrector plate you'll probably hear my Whoop of joy out there in USA! I wish you success, it would be nice to think of you out there with "Artemis 2" in the near future!
Take care Lynn. 🤗✨🌙✨
Great year in review! So sorry to hear that your beloved 12” is broken 😢, but I’m sure something will come along. Either a repair or a replacement. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and wishing you clear skies and fantastic views in 2025!
Thank you. I'm staying hopeful something will turn up to replace or repair Artemis. I wish you clear skies and great views in 2025 as well.
An incredible year! So many wonders in the skies!
Indeed! I was so lucky with good weather for most of them.
Hi Tsula, I thoroughly enjoyed your channel this year and I'm glad that I found it. Your year end review brought back many memories of my own astronomical adventures topped by the total solar eclipse which I viewed with my daughter and her family from just south of Cleveland, Ohio. The aurorae and the comet were also great memories. You are inspiring me to get out there more often in the upcoming year. Happy New Year to you. 🙂
Thank you. I'm glad you liked my review of all the great astronomical events of 2024, and had some great experiences of your own. I am over the moon that you have been inspired by my little channel to get out there more often. Happy new year to you and your family.
Have a great Happy New Year!! I look forward to more of your videos hope we all get to enjoy as much dark and clear skies in the years to come.
Thank you! Happy new year to you as well and many dark and clear skies!
Tsula, I love your channel and passion for astronomy! 2024 was a great year for me too with the hobby. I did several multi day star parties, met lots of great people, and really started honing my skills and building my gear! I just took the plunge into astrophotography, so 2025 should be a great year too! I got my astrophotography gear for Christmas.
I'm very sorry to hear about your stolen and damaged gear 😞
Thank you. That's wonderful that you accomplished so much with the hobby in 2024. I wish you all the best in 2025 and that you get some great astro pics with your new gear. Take care and thank you for your well wishes.
@tsulasbigadventures thank you! If I may suggest, you should definitely do some multi day star parties in good dark sky locations if you can. I've found them to be invaluable ways to learn, meet people, and get long stretches of observing in. I've also met and seen other TH-camrs at these events.
@@davidstaiti OK. I have a list of upcoming star parties on my website. My local club has one each month but they sell out quickly and those are just one night a month. A multi day would be better.
really nice video, Great shots and a pleasure to watch.
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Thoroughly enjoyed this presentation! Thanks for putting it together
Thank you. I'm glad you liked it.
Bravo Tsula. 👏🏻 Thank you.
Thanks, Ron!
dont give up on artemis, ed ting dropped a scope and broke the corrector plate. some one had one laying around and even though it was replaced it still worked. im sure some one some where has the parts sitting around. even though meade is gone the parts they had went somewhere and do exist.
Thank you for your encouragement. I appreciate it.
You're doing a fantastic job! I have a quick question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
Thanks. I can't help with your wallet.
Hi Tsula! Those sct corrector plates are so thin for there apature! They don't forgive you when dropped. Clear skies for 25!
I know, Eric. They are so fragile. Clear skies to you for 2025 as well.
Wonderful video, but you forgot to mention, as another highlight of the 2024 astronomical year, the growth of a certain TH-cam channel called Tsula's Big Adventures. 🙂
Thank you, Walter. It all started when you asked me to make that video about a certain feature on our closest celestial neighbor. 😁
@@tsulasbigadventures I showed that video to my family in Maryland. They liked it and you. 🙂
@@waltergold3457 Thank you, Walter!
I saw a beautiful display of Nacreous Clouds last night and the display lasted about 2 hours after sunset because they are so high they catch the Sun a good while after it's set . Strange how these strange cloud types are appearing in recent years.I never used to see Noctilucent or Nacreous Clouds until about the last 5 years.Fairbanks sounds really cold .The furthest north I've ever been in Narvik in Norway which is about 200 km north of the Artic Circle but it wasn't too cold about 0c although it was in an April.
I don't know about a nacreous clouds but I read that people see more Noctilucent Clouds these days because of pollution. Sad but I would still like to see them one day.
Artemis fell off the mount while filming and no video? I can only imagine the horror you felt. If it is not too painful, there is a cautionary lesson that would be beneficial to others about how such a thing could happen to an experienced observer such as yourself.
It is on video but it is so painful for me to watch it that I cannot bring myself to show it to the public. I felt sick to my stomach when it happened.
Where I live the northern lights can be as annoying as clouds when trying to stargaze or photograph 😅
I never really thought it about it before this year when I saw so many, how much northern lights diminish the transparency. I actually pulled my telescope out to star gaze that night of the G5 Storm but I realized it was far too bright to star gaze. So, I just sat back and enjoyed the show.
Tsula, can you show us your observation log?
Yes. I showed some pages in an earlier video about observing the moon, I think.
th-cam.com/video/fi1-vmUGr-A/w-d-xo.html
But it's a 20 minute video.
Maybe I can make a blog post today on my website showing some pages from my log book and how to keep one. My website is tsulasbigadventures dot com
Omg!! What happened to Alan!! 😢
OMG is right.
I just read about him!! ,, was ,is still a gentle soul!! I'll miss his voice!!
@@jamesodin8751 I felt like I had lost a friend when he died.
TSULA! I Thought I already posted this but I don't see what I thought I posted -- First the link -- And your christmas present:
th-cam.com/video/AmBkSX8ivmY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=X6gx3BUcWFP8aUHl
I had found the URL's for 8'', 10'', and 12'' Meades but I guess something happened. And of course you love Orion -- EVERYTHING from Orion is being auctioned. Also I grew up in Virginia Beach. I think I was in that same total eclipse you were in. I don't remember it being a school day but maybe I was too young for school. I came around the bend in '63.
Brad: Thank you for the information but after the heart breaking and untimely death of Artemis I decided to make a major purchase from another American Company very much still in business. Stay tuned to find out! Yes, I believe that eclipse happened when school was out because I distinctly recall standing on the driveway of our family home in South Carolina and looking at a projection of the eclipse on the driveway. I asked Daddy if I could look through his little white Tasco refractor and he said no it was dangerous.
I live way over in central NC and have been involved in stargazing since the 90s. My first real scope was a Meade LX 10 which I still have, so I'm SO sorry to hear about your Artemis taking a tumble! 😮 I hope you find a replacement soon. I have an older 10" Meade OTA I plan to use once I can acquire a suitable mount. It's been in storage for quite some time due to trips back and forth to Vietnam and finally getting married. I let my wife see Jupiter for her first time just the other night. She is not a big fan of the cold!
I recently stumbled on your channel and really enjoy your down to earth presentations. You have helped inspire me to reignite my interest in astronomy. Hope this year brings you nothing but more great adventures without any more misfortune. Looking forward to more of your very helpful and interesting content.
Thank you so much. That is so kind of you to say. My dear mother lived in Raleigh for a long time and I spent many Christmases there. She was not a fan of the cold either. But that's great you showed your wife Jupiter in your telescope and I'm humbled that I have inspired you to get back out there and enjoy the night sky.