Hi Tsula, 5 stars to you! A really great film…Congratulations! This has everything, Astronomy, Culture and Nature, all my favourites! I love your editing and choice of music which really enhances the film. The architecture is incredible, those curved walls and columns, are very technical to build! I may never visit this place but I know it now thanks to you. The astronomy shots are great, I loved the Milky way and constellations. Oh for a dark sky!!! Thanks for sharing this 🤗✨🌙
Thank you, Linda. I was trying to get the total time to 20 minutes but once I got to 30 minutes I couldn't bring myself to cut anything else out. Editing was very difficult. I just loved being there and seeing all the wonderful sites and enjoying the night sky. What a fantastic trip. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Cheers.
Thank you. The ranger pointed out that a bolt of lightning would have been the brightest thing the Indians ever saw but he forgot about the supernova. But, yes the skies must have been amazing back then.
Hi Ron: Thank you. I have wanted to go there for years but it's so hard to get to that it took me until this year and I'm so glad I went. What a wonderful place.
Thank you for sharing your trip...wow love seeing the sites you visited....amazing what these people accomplished. Your sister the midget...lol. I imagine you had spectacular views of the sky...nothing beats a dark sky. Love your Milkyway pictures.
Thanks yet again. Makes me excited for the day when i will be taking an extended vacation to check out these locations with my scopes. it will be a long time coming but well worth it. Thank you for your time and sharing your adventures.
Tsula I thought the background music at times was much too loud and I couldn’t hear your commentary while you were viewing the amazing architecture. I also wanted to ask, if this was four out of five stars for darkness, what other place have you visited that you would say is a five out of five stars in terms of darkness?
Sorry about that. I was just chatting with my sister and Pepper. I turned down the music when I had something important to say. I have one more part coming soon that got five stars and I gave five stars to the Colorado Plateau where I camped in a remote primitive camp site that was a Bortle 1.
Another excellent video. I have always felt disappointed that the ancient cultures of North America have not had the amount of research and attention given them as the ancient Egyptian, Roman, Greek and other cultures. Granted part of that may be because they left no written histories but still, I don't recall the Mississippian Mound Builders even being mentioned in school for example. Fascinating subject!
Looks like a nice place but surprised it rained so much as it looked desert like.Mind you speaking of rain 🌧️ in deserts I was in Bahrain around 6 years ago and it poured down for 2 days and all the roads were knee deep in water but when it stopped it was just dry sand everywhere.
Yes, it's in the desert and that's how it is there too. It rains and floods and then it dries up the next day and doesn't rain again for a several weeks.
@@tsulasbigadventures I dropped the comment in your video about SQM. I couldn't make heads or tails of the math in the SQM meter's user guide, where it explains how sky brightness is calculated. (For your convenience, I quoted the relevant passage in full.) I went as far as to suggest that there's a typo in the explanation, but I could've been wrong about that - as I remarked, I've no head for math. 🙂
@@waltergold3457 Let me see if I can find it. Lately I have been having problems seeing all of my comments. I don't know why. Sometimes months go by before I see some of the comments.
I've been to Chaco Canyon, but didn't camp there or stargaze. Isn't the road horrible? Even in my 4Runner, I wouldn't want my Dobs shaken up on the road. I put a big pillow under it now, which helps keep the collimation pretty close. Happy trails! I wish I could catch up with you in the 4 corners area! Shoot!
Dena (is that your name?): The entrance road to Chaco is actually not bad. We rented a Ford Expedition and it did fine and incredibly my 10" SCT stayed collimated the entire trip. There were some secondary roads that we stayed away from because the ranger told us they were terrible. Don't worry! I'll be back next summer. I had so much fun.
I own three Barlow and they are all 1.25" an Orion 2x, a Televue 2x and a Televue 3x. Since Orion is out of business that one is out of the question. I have not used a Televue 2" Barlow but it must be as good as the 1.25 either the 2x or 3x would be great.
@@tsulasbigadventures I have a Celestron 30mm 1.25 and a 2" 30mm that came with my scope and to me there is a very big difference. I can see more and the detail is greater. I learned from you the higher the mag the weaker the light. In my mind a barlow "2 can gather/focus more light than a 1.25. It's been 3 weeks since the sky was even close to taking out the 8" dob. Last night went from Ideal on Accueview to why bother? only thing I saw was Polaris, clouds galore! Polaris is a double or a triple so I can say it's a double at least. It was easier to see at 30mm than at 13mm then I heard your voice "the higher the lesser if it's not a planet"
You should consider a truss tube Dobsonian or Ultra compact obsession for these trips. In my opinion they would be much more manageable to transport and assemble. Any particular reason why you didn't consider them?
Well, actually before I leftfor my camping trip I bought an Explore Scientific 10" Truss Tube Dob and I was highly disappointed and returned it. Explore Scientific has a terrible return policy and I lost quite a bit on that terrible decision. someone else mentioned a light weight 18". I looked at their web site and it's not exactly "lightweight." But I do want to get another Dobsonian. I am going to look at Obsession's web site again and see if there is something suitable. I just thought the 10" SCT would be more manageable than it was.
@@tsulasbigadventures I was thinking of getting a 16in truss tube explorer scientific Dobsonian myself. Now I am not too sure. What did you not like about it?
@@MAGISTER9 I was trying to put it together and discovered that the holes for the screws were not lined up and it was almost impossible to get the top onto the mirror box. Then after I finally got it together I started to line up the finder scope which was extremely cheap and when I placed the scope parallel with the ground in order to see something on the horizon the mirror fell out. It wasn't damaged but the mirror box wasn't right. The whole telescope is very cheaply made and I hated it.
Beautiful pictures great video
Thank you so much. Thank you for watching.
Hi Tsula, 5 stars to you! A really great film…Congratulations! This has everything, Astronomy, Culture and Nature, all my favourites! I love your editing and choice of music which really enhances the film. The architecture is incredible, those curved walls and columns, are very technical to build! I may never visit this place but I know it now thanks to you. The astronomy shots are great, I loved the Milky way and constellations. Oh for a dark sky!!!
Thanks for sharing this 🤗✨🌙
Thank you, Linda. I was trying to get the total time to 20 minutes but once I got to 30 minutes I couldn't bring myself to cut anything else out. Editing was very difficult. I just loved being there and seeing all the wonderful sites and enjoying the night sky. What a fantastic trip. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Cheers.
Excellent video Tsula. Thank you for documenting and sharing your experience. Looks like a very interesting place. 🔭🌃🌠
Thank you. I'm glad you liked it.
A great video in this series of videos, the people who lived there must have seen some lovely dark sky's in their time, and loved your images.
Thank you. The ranger pointed out that a bolt of lightning would have been the brightest thing the Indians ever saw but he forgot about the supernova. But, yes the skies must have been amazing back then.
Thanks for sharing Tsula. Looks like a fantastic area to visit. Cheers.
Hi Ron: Thank you. I have wanted to go there for years but it's so hard to get to that it took me until this year and I'm so glad I went. What a wonderful place.
Thank you for sharing your trip...wow love seeing the sites you visited....amazing what these people accomplished.
Your sister the midget...lol.
I imagine you had spectacular views of the sky...nothing beats a dark sky.
Love your Milkyway pictures.
Thank you, Mike. These people were amazing and the sky was stupendous.
Thanks yet again. Makes me excited for the day when i will be taking an extended vacation to check out these locations with my scopes. it will be a long time coming but well worth it. Thank you for your time and sharing your adventures.
Thank you, Jay. I hope you get to go soon.
Absolutely fascinating! I definitely have to go see this for myself. Thanks for sharing
Thank you. Definitely worth making the effort. I highly recommend it.
I've been to chaco canyon many times. Nice energy there.
What a wonderful park. I especially enjoyed the Pueblo Alto Loop trail.
Tsula I thought the background music at times was much too loud and I couldn’t hear your commentary while you were viewing the amazing architecture. I also wanted to ask, if this was four out of five stars for darkness, what other place have you visited that you would say is a five out of five stars in terms of darkness?
Sorry about that. I was just chatting with my sister and Pepper. I turned down the music when I had something important to say. I have one more part coming soon that got five stars and I gave five stars to the Colorado Plateau where I camped in a remote primitive camp site that was a Bortle 1.
just stumbled on your channel..... very cool!!!!
Thank you so much. Thanks for watching.
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Another excellent video. I have always felt disappointed that the ancient cultures of North America have not had the amount of research and attention given them as the ancient Egyptian, Roman, Greek and other cultures. Granted part of that may be because they left no written histories but still, I don't recall the Mississippian Mound Builders even being mentioned in school for example. Fascinating subject!
Thank you. I agree with your wholeheartedly. I never even heard about the Cahokia Mounds in St. Louis until I was an adult.
Looks like a nice place but surprised it rained so much as it looked desert like.Mind you speaking of rain 🌧️ in deserts I was in Bahrain around 6 years ago and it poured down for 2 days and all the roads were knee deep in water but when it stopped it was just dry sand everywhere.
Yes, it's in the desert and that's how it is there too. It rains and floods and then it dries up the next day and doesn't rain again for a several weeks.
Very nice, Tsula, although I agree with the other comment, about the background music. We've discussed this before. 🙂
Thanks, Walter. See above about the music.
@@tsulasbigadventures It was only a minor distraction. But you didn't answer my question about the math used to calculate SQM. 🙂
@@waltergold3457 I never saw a question about math. What was the question?
@@tsulasbigadventures I dropped the comment in your video about SQM. I couldn't make heads or tails of the math in the SQM meter's user guide, where it explains how sky brightness is calculated. (For your convenience, I quoted the relevant passage in full.) I went as far as to suggest that there's a typo in the explanation, but I could've been wrong about that - as I remarked, I've no head for math. 🙂
@@waltergold3457 Let me see if I can find it. Lately I have been having problems seeing all of my comments. I don't know why. Sometimes months go by before I see some of the comments.
I've been to Chaco Canyon, but didn't camp there or stargaze. Isn't the road horrible? Even in my 4Runner, I wouldn't want my Dobs shaken up on the road. I put a big pillow under it now, which helps keep the collimation pretty close. Happy trails! I wish I could catch up with you in the 4 corners area! Shoot!
Dena (is that your name?): The entrance road to Chaco is actually not bad. We rented a Ford Expedition and it did fine and incredibly my 10" SCT stayed collimated the entire trip. There were some secondary roads that we stayed away from because the ranger told us they were terrible. Don't worry! I'll be back next summer. I had so much fun.
2" eye pieces are way too high and me too lol. But I am looking for 2" Barlow, You have 100x my experience, can you recommend?
I own three Barlow and they are all 1.25" an Orion 2x, a Televue 2x and a Televue 3x. Since Orion is out of business that one is out of the question. I have not used a Televue 2" Barlow but it must be as good as the 1.25 either the 2x or 3x would be great.
@@tsulasbigadventures I have a Celestron 30mm 1.25 and a 2" 30mm that came with my scope and to me there is a very big difference. I can see more and the detail is greater. I learned from you the higher the mag the weaker the light. In my mind a barlow "2 can gather/focus more light than a 1.25. It's been 3 weeks since the sky was even close to taking out the 8" dob. Last night went from Ideal on Accueview to why bother? only thing I saw was Polaris, clouds galore! Polaris is a double or a triple so I can say it's a double at least. It was easier to see at 30mm than at 13mm then I heard your voice "the higher the lesser if it's not a planet"
@@krazyhorse448 That makes sense to me. Polaris is a pretty neat double star. So, at least you got to see that. I can only see clouds.
You should consider a truss tube Dobsonian or Ultra compact obsession for these trips. In my opinion they would be much more manageable to transport and assemble. Any particular reason why you didn't consider them?
Well, actually before I leftfor my camping trip I bought an Explore Scientific 10" Truss Tube Dob and I was highly disappointed and returned it. Explore Scientific has a terrible return policy and I lost quite a bit on that terrible decision. someone else mentioned a light weight 18". I looked at their web site and it's not exactly "lightweight." But I do want to get another Dobsonian. I am going to look at Obsession's web site again and see if there is something suitable. I just thought the 10" SCT would be more manageable than it was.
@@tsulasbigadventures I was thinking of getting a 16in truss tube explorer scientific Dobsonian myself. Now I am not too sure. What did you not like about it?
@@MAGISTER9 I was trying to put it together and discovered that the holes for the screws were not lined up and it was almost impossible to get the top onto the mirror box. Then after I finally got it together I started to line up the finder scope which was extremely cheap and when I placed the scope parallel with the ground in order to see something on the horizon the mirror fell out. It wasn't damaged but the mirror box wasn't right. The whole telescope is very cheaply made and I hated it.
@@tsulasbigadventures WOW. I will abandon my 16inch truss tube plans now.