This is incredible! I stargazed once at the Mesquite sand dunes in Death Valley and couldn’t believe the sky. The zodiacal light was so bright and the winter Milky Way was awesome. Love all of your videos. Clear skies!
I was in death valley for thanksgiving this year and took my sky watcher gti with me… beautiful dark sky ,took pictures of horsehead and whitchhead nebulae.
5:09 Me and the wife drove from Raleigh, NC to Palo Alto, CA last May. On our way back home in February (we weren't as rushed coming back as we were going out), we were driving through the Mojave Desert at about 2-3am. We pulled off on the side of the road, and looked up.....the sky was indescribable. Being on the east coast, nearly every square inch has light pollution, so seeing the sky in the desert, during winter, was absolutely awe-inspiring. Almost as much WOW as a total solar eclipse, but not quite. The total solar eclipse is the ultimate in WOW factor. But the night sky in the Mojave Desert is a close second. Edit: these images at the above time code is all we saw for a couple of days. There was a stretch where we could see the road go straight all the way to the horizon. My wife was amazed. She always said she didn't want to travel to the desert, or the four corners, but I explained that the desert has its own kind of special beauty, as long as you have plenty of water, lol. Now, she was so amazed on that trip, she is excited for our retirement plan - purchasing a RV and hit the road and travel all over the USA, up to Alaska. Probably do that for 2-3 years. Then, it's overseas traveling.
Drove a truck over the road for years and there was no place like home in Mississippi, but there are some amazing views out west in the day and nighttime. Glad you had the opportunity to go and get some more great shots, keep up the great work!
Wow! So cool! You made me miss the Nevada desert. It is a magical, beautiful place. I spent 6 weeks just north of Vegas in the desert wildlife refuge off Alamo road. My favorite image at the end was definitely with the snow cap mountain ☺️
Great video, Walt! I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area only 500 miles or so from Badwater Basin and I've never been down there. I MUST head down and get some of those views/images. Great shots from the ET Highway also!
Wow!!! Absolutely beautiful captures!!! I'm jealous! lol. I'm glad you were able to get out into those incredible dark skies. Thank you for sharing this Awesome video. Clear Skies!!!!!
@@deltaastrophotography can imagine, especially to such locations as these ofcourse. Also very much enjoy your videos from back home. Doesn't look too shabby at all compared to where I live in The Netherlands 😅.
Your videos are genuinely some of most entertaining Astro vids out there! Definitely helping me ride through these cloudy or completely moonlit nights!
Great video Walt, really lovely images , and what memories a trip like that gives you, hope your girlfriend enjoyed it as well, the nearest sky's like that for me is in Scotland.Keep up the great work 👍
Beautiful trip, beautiful photos, the sky is fantastic, if you can make a tutorial how you proceeded with your photos I would be galatically grateful, many congratulations have photos that any nightscape photographer would like to do
I'm so bummed. It is really really dark out there it's fantastic but when I didn't work out there I wasn't even thinking about astronomy or telescopes or astrophotography. I guess it's a good thing or I'd probably feel really bad about it now.
I feel the same way before I knew how to take pictures of the Milky Way or anything like that I had gone to Iceland in one of the most remote areas and saw the Milky Way with my eye I never took a picture LOL
Awesome trip and thanks for sharing. What no camo dudes encounter? The skies are some of the darkest I've seen there. Green skyglow is eerie, but appropriate for that area with all them otherworldly vibes goin' on out there.
I spent a night pretty deep in the Adirondack national park a few years ago. I guess it was Bortle 3-ish. It was before I was into astrophotography of any sort, but the stars were astounding. You start to understand why the ancient cultures were all about, well, astrology. The night sky is a bonfire without modern light pollution. Your Death Valley experience probably exceeded that. Nice.
Great Video,and Beautiful Image,I Have The Privilege Of Living A Little Better Than An Hour Away From Cherry Springs State Park,and A Bortle 3 In My Skies..If I Could Ever See The Sky Again🤨,and Just Got A New Evostar72ed Today..Clear Skies🙏🏻❤️🌏🔭✨
I'd even like to see some lightpolluted skies.😅 In Switzerland we had only clouds for maaaaany weeks 😭. In the next clear night I'll try the long Arca Swiss plate too for Dec-Balance 👌
Nice trip, Walt! The first time I went out to the desert, the amount of stars literally made me dizzy. It’s unbelievably dark out there compared to the eastern half of the US. If only I could win the lottery….
Hey Walt so today is my bday and your video has to be one of the best gifts I could get. Awesome and inspiring adventure! Thanks for taking us with you 😊
I wish you had told me you were coming out to my realm. I could have showed you dozens of places to shoot for landscape and astro. I used to do workshops and tours in Nevada, Arizona, Utah and California.
I was in Rachel NV and the back gate on Nov 6th, awsome to have been there after seeing it in real life was surreal. And it really is on the alpha sierra sierra end of nowhere. it was several hours driving from L V
2:16 I finally got my Sky Watcher Star Adventurer 2i Pro Pack a couple of weeks ago. I have had only ONE cloudless night with little to no moon. I am struuuugggling with the polar alignment. Whoever came up with that tube to look through, CLEARLY didn't wear glasses. And then trying to figure out which one of the 15 knobs to turn was frustrating.
Being from UK I am seriously jealous about all the dark skies you guys can get to. Where I live is usually covered in cloud (no wonder Jodrell Bank is a radio telescope!!) BUT just wanna say thanks for your videos (probably called something else these days......but I'm old) I'm learning so much!!
Yeah the whole reason I got into this hobby is because I live in a very dark area myself. I thought about how lucky I am to be able to see the Milky Way with my own eyes when I just step outside my house. I decided I needed to share this experience with the world and bought my first camera.
@@deltaastrophotography I've been into it since a kid. Got my first refractor (60mm rubbish mount) at about 13 and bought an 8.5inch F5 reflector with super polaris mount when about 22. Then life and marriage/kids got in the way. We had none of what you guys have today and to get anywhere near it would have cost an even bigger fortune then than now (and it's big enough now). So, I've just invested in an old Meade 8 inch LX10 used and a Skywatcher Star Travel 120 with EQ5Pro plus a bunch of meade eyepieces and a Nikon D5500 (no intention of astro modding). However, I am also a much loathed heretic because I, in no way now, believe NASA's Apollo missions went even close to the moon. I did for about 45 years of my life but realised how duped I was. You can still love the subject and hobby without swallowing NASA bs. 🙂
Ok, I am :12 in, and I have to know: is the opening music in a longer piece? Like is there a 3-4 minute version? It would help immensely with my insomnia....
Dude, I never park in the Badwater parking lot; always a mile or two down the road where the lakebed is not that far. This video brought back memories of such a special place. Question, have the roads been repaired after the floods this spring?
Hey Walt, once you have the north pole star aligned, do you then attach the camera with the counter weight, to the Star Tracker and then try to locate your target and then turn the tracker on, or should you turn the tracker on as soon as you polar align and then add the camera and counterweight? Let me know if you understand what I am asking. I swear it makes sense in my head!
For the iOptron Skyguider Pro you have to turn the tracker on to see the inside of the polar scope. I usually turn in on in the very beginning and just leave it on.
@@deltaastrophotography oh ok. I was struggling something fierce with the 2i. I think I just needed to find a better location where it was darker and maybe a better tripod too.
Great video as usual! You’re the reason why I just got started into astrophotography! I recently just bought the star adventure gti and was wondering if you had any suggestions for tripods and also I’m still trying to figure out how to attach my canon 300 f/4 to the mount and was wondering if the dove tails came with screws?
There's a great freeware filter out there called hasta lavista green for use in photoshop. I swear by it and use it on ally astrophotography. All that green noise will be gone. Great video!!
I actually used that filter on my Orion photo but I didn't want to mess with Cygnus. That green glow was the real color of the air out there and I wanted to keep it! When I scrolled through my light frames of cygnus it was like a green mist or cloud moving through the shots. It looked very similar to the Northern lights!
i have sony a 68 dslr......and 50mm 1.8 prime lens is that enough for astrophotography? if yes then what is the shutter speed time and aperture size for sharp star pics? plz help.
Are your DSLRs modified for astrophotography? Like full spectrum or visible/IR only, etc? I have an old sony mirrorless and wondering if it's worth modifying it.
My 700D/T5i is. It is totally worth it if you have a spare camera. I have an H-Alpha mod and the detail I can get is insane! I wouldn't do it to my only camera though because my day shots can have a red or purple tint even with a custom white balance.
@@deltaastrophotography ahh okay I appreciate it. Sharper than if it was open wider. Gotcha. Thanks for this video, I want to rent an rv now and do the same. May be asking the spots u went haha
Not a sign of a cloud. The darkest most beautiful skies I have ever seen is at Sequoia National Park at around 6000 feet. I was lucky enough to be there in early September one weekend on new moon when it was clear and the sky was so dark that the milky way cast that green glow everywhere. I have never seen anything quite like that anywhere else.
Heya Walt, I'm coming at this backwards with about a year into dedicated DSO gear and a little budding interest in trying out my old DSLR and whatnot. Anyway, I love your screen presence, story telling, and educational content all wrapped into one. Can't get enough! Keep doing what you do. I've dropped "likes" on several videos and will keep on doing so. Do what you do, dude! Thank you.
Breath-taking images which border on the emotional. Uplifting and fun travel video plus amazing dedication. Thanks for taking us on that journey!
This is incredible! I stargazed once at the Mesquite sand dunes in Death Valley and couldn’t believe the sky. The zodiacal light was so bright and the winter Milky Way was awesome. Love all of your videos. Clear skies!
I was in death valley for thanksgiving this year and took my sky watcher gti with me… beautiful dark sky ,took pictures of horsehead and whitchhead nebulae.
Oh nice! Yeah the skies were perfect out there! It got cloudy the day we left.
wonderful photos and experience Walt! Thanks a lot! a hug, Carlos
You have instagram ?
5:09 Me and the wife drove from Raleigh, NC to Palo Alto, CA last May. On our way back home in February (we weren't as rushed coming back as we were going out), we were driving through the Mojave Desert at about 2-3am. We pulled off on the side of the road, and looked up.....the sky was indescribable. Being on the east coast, nearly every square inch has light pollution, so seeing the sky in the desert, during winter, was absolutely awe-inspiring. Almost as much WOW as a total solar eclipse, but not quite. The total solar eclipse is the ultimate in WOW factor. But the night sky in the Mojave Desert is a close second.
Edit: these images at the above time code is all we saw for a couple of days. There was a stretch where we could see the road go straight all the way to the horizon. My wife was amazed. She always said she didn't want to travel to the desert, or the four corners, but I explained that the desert has its own kind of special beauty, as long as you have plenty of water, lol. Now, she was so amazed on that trip, she is excited for our retirement plan - purchasing a RV and hit the road and travel all over the USA, up to Alaska. Probably do that for 2-3 years. Then, it's overseas traveling.
I love this adventure format. Inspires me to do something like that of my own.
If I had time.
probably the saddest comment ive ever seen so far
Amazing, Walt! Wow. Beautiful work.
Great video! What an awesome trip. I love the desert and miss it since moving further away. Excellent images, as well!
Drove a truck over the road for years and there was no place like home in Mississippi, but there are some amazing views out west in the day and nighttime. Glad you had the opportunity to go and get some more great shots, keep up the great work!
Wow! So cool! You made me miss the Nevada desert. It is a magical, beautiful place. I spent 6 weeks just north of Vegas in the desert wildlife refuge off Alamo road. My favorite image at the end was definitely with the snow cap mountain ☺️
Really fun and refreshing video. I hope to do the same in the near future! Thank you for sharing.
Great video, Walt!
I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area only 500 miles or so from Badwater Basin and I've never been down there. I MUST head down and get some of those views/images.
Great shots from the ET Highway also!
Wow!!! Absolutely beautiful captures!!! I'm jealous! lol. I'm glad you were able to get out into those incredible dark skies. Thank you for sharing this Awesome video. Clear Skies!!!!!
Great photos and video!
I used to live right near the Kitt Peak observatory in Arizona and the skies were absolutely amazing!
What a great adventure you had there! Plus, fantastic results. Thanks so much for sharing! Not nearly enough astro vloggers out there yet! :-).
I really enjoyed it! I would love to go on more astro adventures and make videos.
@@deltaastrophotography can imagine, especially to such locations as these ofcourse. Also very much enjoy your videos from back home. Doesn't look too shabby at all compared to where I live in The Netherlands 😅.
Your videos are genuinely some of most entertaining Astro vids out there! Definitely helping me ride through these cloudy or completely moonlit nights!
Incredible trip. Fabulous images
Great video Walt, really lovely images , and what memories a trip like that gives you, hope your girlfriend enjoyed it as well, the nearest sky's like that for me is in Scotland.Keep up the great work 👍
Holy poop balls Batman…. Those are stunning. I really enjoyed that video format.
Thanks! I'm hoping do a lot more like that in 2023.
Beautiful trip, beautiful photos, the sky is fantastic, if you can make a tutorial how you proceeded with your photos I would be galatically grateful, many congratulations have photos that any nightscape photographer would like to do
I'm so bummed. It is really really dark out there it's fantastic but when I didn't work out there I wasn't even thinking about astronomy or telescopes or astrophotography. I guess it's a good thing or I'd probably feel really bad about it now.
I feel the same way before I knew how to take pictures of the Milky Way or anything like that I had gone to Iceland in one of the most remote areas and saw the Milky Way with my eye I never took a picture LOL
Need to get to a dark site soon, I have only went near B3, Hoping to go to a Bortle 1 next year, India has very less dark skies
Awesome trip and thanks for sharing. What no camo dudes encounter? The skies are some of the darkest I've seen there. Green skyglow is eerie, but appropriate for that area with all them otherworldly vibes goin' on out there.
Great road trip & fab photos!
I spent a night pretty deep in the Adirondack national park a few years ago. I guess it was Bortle 3-ish. It was before I was into astrophotography of any sort, but the stars were astounding. You start to understand why the ancient cultures were all about, well, astrology. The night sky is a bonfire without modern light pollution. Your Death Valley experience probably exceeded that. Nice.
Such an incredible journey. Loved all your images and vlogging. Would you consider doing a post processing of the winter Milky Way tutorial?
Great Video,and Beautiful Image,I Have The Privilege Of Living A Little Better Than An Hour Away From Cherry Springs State Park,and A Bortle 3 In My Skies..If I Could Ever See The Sky Again🤨,and Just Got A New Evostar72ed Today..Clear Skies🙏🏻❤️🌏🔭✨
I'd even like to see some lightpolluted skies.😅 In Switzerland we had only clouds for maaaaany weeks 😭. In the next clear night I'll try the long Arca Swiss plate too for Dec-Balance 👌
Nice trip, Walt! The first time I went out to the desert, the amount of stars literally made me dizzy. It’s unbelievably dark out there compared to the eastern half of the US. If only I could win the lottery….
I love your videos!!!!
Hey Walt so today is my bday and your video has to be one of the best gifts I could get. Awesome and inspiring adventure! Thanks for taking us with you 😊
Happy Birthday bud 🎈
Happy Birthday my friend!
I wish you had told me you were coming out to my realm. I could have showed you dozens of places to shoot for landscape and astro. I used to do workshops and tours in Nevada, Arizona, Utah and California.
I'll be back for sure!
@@deltaastrophotography There are quite a bit of other dark sky areas I can take you to with foregrounds.
I was in Rachel NV and the back gate on Nov 6th, awsome to have been there after seeing it in real life was surreal. And it really is on the alpha sierra sierra end of nowhere. it was several hours driving from L V
2:16 I finally got my Sky Watcher Star Adventurer 2i Pro Pack a couple of weeks ago. I have had only ONE cloudless night with little to no moon. I am struuuugggling with the polar alignment. Whoever came up with that tube to look through, CLEARLY didn't wear glasses. And then trying to figure out which one of the 15 knobs to turn was frustrating.
My goodness! I really enjoyed this one!!
Thank you so much! It was my favorite to make so far!
The sky is green, always. Especially at the horizon.
Great video, thanks for sharing 👍
Being from UK I am seriously jealous about all the dark skies you guys can get to. Where I live is usually covered in cloud (no wonder Jodrell Bank is a radio telescope!!) BUT just wanna say thanks for your videos (probably called something else these days......but I'm old) I'm learning so much!!
Indeed they are - very lucky. I don't think most of them appreciate it though - although Walt certainly does.
Yeah the whole reason I got into this hobby is because I live in a very dark area myself. I thought about how lucky I am to be able to see the Milky Way with my own eyes when I just step outside my house. I decided I needed to share this experience with the world and bought my first camera.
@@deltaastrophotography I've been into it since a kid. Got my first refractor (60mm rubbish mount) at about 13 and bought an 8.5inch F5 reflector with super polaris mount when about 22. Then life and marriage/kids got in the way. We had none of what you guys have today and to get anywhere near it would have cost an even bigger fortune then than now (and it's big enough now). So, I've just invested in an old Meade 8 inch LX10 used and a Skywatcher Star Travel 120 with EQ5Pro plus a bunch of meade eyepieces and a Nikon D5500 (no intention of astro modding). However, I am also a much loathed heretic because I, in no way now, believe NASA's Apollo missions went even close to the moon. I did for about 45 years of my life but realised how duped I was. You can still love the subject and hobby without swallowing NASA bs. 🙂
21:11 ... Ren and Stimpy !!
Yes!!
Ok, I am :12 in, and I have to know: is the opening music in a longer piece? Like is there a 3-4 minute version? It would help immensely with my insomnia....
Really enjoy the vids my man !
Dude, I never park in the Badwater parking lot; always a mile or two down the road where the lakebed is not that far. This video brought back memories of such a special place. Question, have the roads been repaired after the floods this spring?
We didn't really see any road problems out there so I guess so!
Really enjoyed this video, thanks for sharing your adventure with us all, that milky way shot is incredible'
Hey Walt, once you have the north pole star aligned, do you then attach the camera with the counter weight, to the Star Tracker and then try to locate your target and then turn the tracker on, or should you turn the tracker on as soon as you polar align and then add the camera and counterweight? Let me know if you understand what I am asking. I swear it makes sense in my head!
For the iOptron Skyguider Pro you have to turn the tracker on to see the inside of the polar scope. I usually turn in on in the very beginning and just leave it on.
@@deltaastrophotography oh ok. I was struggling something fierce with the 2i. I think I just needed to find a better location where it was darker and maybe a better tripod too.
Great video as usual! You’re the reason why I just got started into astrophotography! I recently just bought the star adventure gti and was wondering if you had any suggestions for tripods and also I’m still trying to figure out how to attach my canon 300 f/4 to the mount and was wondering if the dove tails came with screws?
Cool shots dude!
There's a great freeware filter out there called hasta lavista green for use in photoshop. I swear by it and use it on ally astrophotography. All that green noise will be gone. Great video!!
I actually used that filter on my Orion photo but I didn't want to mess with Cygnus. That green glow was the real color of the air out there and I wanted to keep it! When I scrolled through my light frames of cygnus it was like a green mist or cloud moving through the shots. It looked very similar to the Northern lights!
Are you using an H alpha +visible light filter on a full spectrum camera? Thinking about getting one of those for my Astor images.
It's just an HA + visible mod. I decided not to go with full spectrum.
i have sony a 68 dslr......and 50mm 1.8 prime lens is that enough for astrophotography? if yes then what is the shutter speed time and aperture size for sharp star pics? plz help.
Are your DSLRs modified for astrophotography? Like full spectrum or visible/IR only, etc? I have an old sony mirrorless and wondering if it's worth modifying it.
My 700D/T5i is. It is totally worth it if you have a spare camera. I have an H-Alpha mod and the detail I can get is insane! I wouldn't do it to my only camera though because my day shots can have a red or purple tint even with a custom white balance.
@@deltaastrophotography Thanks for the info!
Can you explain the reason to me for putting it at F9, for the foreground. Thanks so much I appreciate it
I just wanted the foreground to be as sharp as possible.
@@deltaastrophotography ahh okay I appreciate it. Sharper than if it was open wider. Gotcha. Thanks for this video, I want to rent an rv now and do the same. May be asking the spots u went haha
Класс 🙌! Отличное видео. Хотелось бы посмотреть обработку кадров в фотошоп или DSS
Not a sign of a cloud. The darkest most beautiful skies I have ever seen is at Sequoia National Park at around 6000 feet. I was lucky enough to be there in early September one weekend on new moon when it was clear and the sky was so dark that the milky way cast that green glow everywhere. I have never seen anything quite like that anywhere else.
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Heya Walt, I'm coming at this backwards with about a year into dedicated DSO gear and a little budding interest in trying out my old DSLR and whatnot. Anyway, I love your screen presence, story telling, and educational content all wrapped into one. Can't get enough! Keep doing what you do. I've dropped "likes" on several videos and will keep on doing so. Do what you do, dude! Thank you.
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LOL You photographed the sign that says no photography
Gotta take some risks!
You showed a video of video not allowed banner :)
Shhh! ;)
Watch out for snakes.
Those Cygnus pictures are incredible!
Could you please add the songs used in the description? Thanks and have a great holiday season
Great content brother, keep it up! 💪😎🇺🇸