WHAT CAN I EXPECT TO SEE THROUGH MY TELESCOPE 

I'm so excited about your videos, dear Tsula. The first time I've seen a video about visual observation through astro-telescopes by a woman! You demonstrate here in a very realistic way what to expect and I have a few aha moments. The fact that you are so brave out there observing amongst wild animals deserves the greatest respect. If just one hedgehog shows up in my garden, I'm close to having a heart attack. I need an astro friend like you! Love your videos and greetings from Austria.

As a recent subscriber and an avid amateur astronomer myself. Hats off to you Tsula- what a terrific video! I was enjoying watching the video and saying to myself, holy smokes so much effort put forth to set up all the telescopes and gear! Not to mention like you stated transferring the field flatteners, diagonals, necessary adapters, camera each time you were capturing images. Bless your heart for the determination, patience, and commitment to putting forth these great videos! Thank you again! As always, look forward to new content. Sidebar... great arsenal of telescopes you own! 🔭I have a similar array myself, several refractors and two big SCT.

The moose on the loose was scary. Lucky it didn't ram your telescopes. 🔭🦌 And your commentary throughout the video is so funny.

Geez, I thought the noises in my backyard on a moonless night were scary. You're very brave, Tsula! Thank you for braving the wildlife to bring us these videos. Maybe it's time to get night vision goggles to see what's out there... 😵‍💫 This is a great video to help new folks manage their expectations. Terrific stuff! Thanks again.

I'm new to your channel. What impressed me is your celestrial drawings and I really love it. That's probably the best way improving observation skill for amateurs to capture fine details visually. Lately I often do digital imaging and found myself losing some visual observing skills. Many thanks for your nice videos.

Just came across your channel and It's wonderful! The time and effort that is put into quality RU-vid videos like this is often underestimated or not understood at all. Keep up the great work!

Another home run video. I always enjoy scope comparisons. The differences between apertures and the differences between scope designs is fascinating. I remember at a very young age how disappointed I was with my first views of planets and deep sky objects…. They just don’t look like the photos on the box!. Not to mention the frustration of a cheap wobbly mount. Fast forward quite a few years when I bought my first “real” telescope. No promises of Voyager quality views., no outlandish magnification claim. Of course I had to learn for myself that the Messier objects still looked like dim grey tone patches. I didnt have you tube or even mentors to learn from so I just had to do a lot of reading and self discovery. Great videos like this would have been a huge help and definitely shortened the learning curve. Your enthusiasm is contagious. You definitely prove that this is a hobby that you need to keep moving forward as there are many obstacles that crop up but shouldnt discourage someone to just give up. Now regarding your moose issue…. Did you happen to see a flying squirrel buzzing around too? Do you carry protection with you? Probably not a bad idea to have something at hand. I never observe alone. At the very least I have my two friends Smith and Wesson with me. Too many coyotes and bears in my area to risk the danger. Thanks again for another great video. Hope you get your flip mirror setup working soon.. Clear skies! Chris

Thanks for that monumental effort, I’m not sure I could have stuck it out!

Love and watch all of your videos… really good stuff… very real and sometimes kinda funny … you show what it’s really like…learning a lot from ya and as most of us… I’am slowly growing in knowledge, while attaining the love and a smile when under a good sky!😊😊 Thank You for what you do! It is really really appreciated! 👍😃

Good on you having a go at doing this for all those scopes Tsula I can imagine switching between the eyepiece and camera with the refocus would have been painful. If you ever feel like a great little Astro planetary camera the ASI 224mc is great, just slots straight into your 1.25 eyepiece and is very capable. Clear skies !!

So much work involved on this video bringing all the equipment, great content!!! Subscribed for braveness vs wildlife :) U fill somewhat of a niche for visual astronomy on RU-vid! Thank you!

Lovelly video! Thank you very much!

Wow, you seem to have some pretty cool instruments around! As a only-one-telescope owner, it is really interesting to have a view and see what one can expect from other telescopes. Well made video, thank you so much. Greetings from Spain.

Very informative, I was able to get a sense through your comments. I wonder though what the results would be between your 6 inch Mak vs your 6 inch refractor. I laughed during the moose part.

Just found your channel on youtube. Brilliant! Amazing lady!!

Great video. Every beginner should watch. Thanks for uploading.

Such a great range of scopes you have. But that big Meade SCT is my favourite. Although I love to do astrophotography, seeing with my own eyes is often more amazing.

Love your videos….my Meade 8” sct is fabulous too.

What a great channel. And the amount of work you have put into making this is pretty impressive☺️ new subscriber from Norway

You need to go much lower than a 24mm on a 6" mak to see m31. Upgrading to a 2" diagonal and using a 40mm even 50-56mm eyepiece is the way to go. And yes it works, the smaller baffle is not an issue, there won't be vignetting. On your 12", if you dont have a 2" visual back that threads onto the big 3.25" rear cell of the scope, you need one, since the 2" sct thread step down plate does obstruct the rear baffle, and faint stars are choked off in the outer field of big 2" eyepieces. If you arent yet using 2" eyepieces for low powers and widest fields on that 12", you are only half using that scope. And unobstructed view through a 31mm nagler, 30mm widescan II, 40mm meade SWA, 40mm pentax XW, and 50mm axiom or 55mm plossl/56mm super plossl in my C11 was awesome. The veil with OIII especially in the 50mm axiom (i didn't have a 56mm SP back then before I was robbed, but I do have one now, and an old 10" meade lx premiere, and old powerstar C8 to use it in. M31 in the 31mm nagler was also pretty awesome. If you are limiting yourself to a 24mm panoptic, there is so much more sky you could be seeing. A 31mm nagler, or much lower priced but near equally performing 28mm 82deg uwan/pwa type eyepiece is absolutely amazing in a dob, as well as every other telescope you own. But way too heavy for that little goto mount your mak is on. In its case a much lighter 55 plossl or 30-42mm budget superwide is just fine at that focal ratio. Actually the 30mm UW80 chinese widescan II clones are quite nice in that scope, but to get good brightness on m31 a 40mm superwide or 55 plossl is needed. I always liked to have all 3. Surprisingly the 40mm wide field 3 element eyepieces from those 2" kits are quite good in slow scopes, but I dont recommend the whole kit, as the filters are useless except the moon filter, the 26mm might as well be 1.25", and the diagonal isnt dielectric. When I was selling scopes I always steered people away from that kkt and towards a store brand GSO dielectric diagonal and a 40mm william optics swan 72deg eyepiece for their SCT.

@Tsula'sBigAdventures I sure enjoy these type videos. What one can see with different scopes. Can you list in the description sometime the model numbers of the scopes? I am glad I have not bought a telescope yet. I cannot believe how many times I go back and forth between Dobsonian, Schmidt or Mak Cassegrain or Refractor. I like the idea of not worrying about collimation with Refractors but they are also the most expensive too. The way you yelled at the moose made me think you would do that to me if I was your pesky neighbor wanting to see through your scopes. Get out of here.....you were just over last night!!! Lol

Great video series! Have you tried filming through the eyepiece with a smartphone? Works great on the planets and would show the different views very clearly… Love watching your show!

I didn't realize how bright Jupiter was until I tried to photograph it: had to use a shutter speed of 1/60 to keep detail from being blown out. This is at 80mm diameter, 2400mm effective focal length, which is a _very_ small aperture.

Awesome thank you for your video and patience in getting all that together. I have a 6" Dob and have been thinking about upgrading to an Oberwerk XL Binocular set or getting a celestron 9.25 HD. I want some big aperture and ease of use. What would you recommend?

I know what it is like to be alone and creeped out by wild animals. We don't have moose, but we have mountain lions and rattlesnakes, and I have had 2 rattlesnake enounters, one I was alone and a big diamondback took residence under my vehicle while I was observing, I went back to get something and it rattled at me, so I backed off and threw some rocks near it and it left. The 2nd time I was with a group, and I arrived late and had to set up.next to a bush, and it turns out a small sidewinder was in the bush, and that was a scare. It did leave fortunately. Had I been bitten, we were far enough away from medical help that it wouldn't really matter that I wasnt alone. Another time I kept observing after everyone left, and started to hear rustling in the nearby foliage which creeped me out so I wound up packing it in and leaving, being afraid of mountain lions. Of course mountain lions are more stealthy than whatever rodents or rabbits who were likely the culprits of the rustling. Another time in another area there was a roadkill mountain lion on the side of the road, and a cyclist was recently mauled by a mountain lion in the area

For the most bang for the buck the dobsonian 10 in is the way to go however it can be cumbersome and difficult the transport and no bells and whistles

Kudos on the effort to convey what you see to the audience. First rule: "Manage Expectations." What a person sees in real time is different than what photo stacking and digital editing shows us. The main thing I kept waiting to hear from you: Your 6" and 12" refractors shine exponentially when viewing planets. That is undeniably their forte because of their focal length values. The 10" Dob is not great for planetary viewing, so of course it's subpar compared to the SCT. It shines with deep space object viewing because they're light buckets. So, you're comparing oranges to apples. Maybe next time, highlight what we "should" be using each type of telescope to view. Use the Dob for nebulas, star clusters, galaxies. Use the SCT for single planetary views.

Saturn queen of telescopes, absolutely

Gotta get yourself a nice cozy moose-proof observatory!

I wouldn't worry too much about the moose, although it might be uncouth and knock your equipment over if you leave it unattended. Good advice on replacing cheap eyepieces. I picked up a set of Televue Radians that were being phased out and on sale. Also, I have all of the Panoptics, except for the 41mm hand grenade. My most memorable sighting was M44 in early morning twilight. It was like I wasn't looking through the atmosphere but more as if the Beehive Cluster was being projected onto the atmosphere. Very pastel and surreal.

Critters out west are no joke! I would have some sort of firearm with me if out there alone. I'm by no means an astrophotographer, but I do know that plate scale is everything for planets - so you need either a very long f/l telescope (a Maksutov say) or a high-quality barlow like the Televue 2.5x Powermate (not a simple barlow). Thanks for the video! You have a really fine set of scopes! :)

Great job with a challenging task! Did not realize the complexity but very insightful. Does aperture always win for the size planets appear? Based on your research, the take away is that the refractor will provide smaller but sharper views. Would you go with a 4/5“ APO refractor or a 10/12“ SCT?

Get an ASIAIR Tsula! I'm really impressed with mine and I can keep my controller (iPhone) in my pocket. My laptop sucks power like crazy so I'm glad not to need it unless the ASIAIR fails. I power it all with a Jackery battery. I don't know what it will do on really cold nights, but it's supposed to be able to handle it.

9:13 Was that a transit shadow of one of Jupe's moons?

dear tsula i need your wisdom I want a good size dobson in addition to my SCT of 8 I'm hesitating between a 400 for wich I need my son for carying and mounting in the backyard but my son is not always in the best mood for that and a 300 that I can carry and install by myself What do you think of that ?

Your a trooper, great video, it’s impossible to show people exactly what’s it actually like to visually observe objects, nice try though. Thanks

Nice video though I could not see a picture through the 6 in MCT (around 20 min mark).