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You will find many great Solar images in the blog area. Here are a few tips:
- The product pages for Lunt products have links to images taken by users thru these instruments.
- In order to view a full resolution image you must (a) click the thumbnail in the blog entry, this will open the image in a new page. However, you must then (b) click the image again to view full scale. (we are working on simplifying this process).
- You can submit your own Solar images to Jennifer c/o luntsolarimages@hotmail.com Please include information on products used and a short bio that we will include with the images.
We look forward to receiving and publishing your images and hope you enjoy using your Lunt equipment… Please feel free to comment..
Note: Images are copyright their respective owners and cannot be copied or duplicated without expressed permission.
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Lunt Engineering can provide precision machined parts, opto-mechanical components, astronomy goods and accessories, optics, and filters at up to 60% off local prices.
Lunt Engineering can source parts and services both domestic and off-shore. We have over 10 years of experience in the manufacture of precision high quality optical components and can source medium to large orders and have them shipped directly to your door.
We currently supply mechanical components worldwide.
We specialize in the high quality production of:
Mechanical and Opto-mechanical parts and assemblies..
- Precision machined parts in Aluminum, Brass, Copper, and Stainless Steel
- CNC machining, custom extrusions, and custom castings
- Anodizing, Paint, Laser etch, Engraving (including paint filled)
- Optical fabrication, Flats, Lenses, Filters, and Mirrors
- Optical Coatings: anti-reflection (<0.1%R), IR blocking (hot mirrors and windows), and bandpass filters (to name a few)
- If you need OEM machined parts and would like to lower their cost, give us a try.
Telescope and Astronomical Accessories..
Wholesale direct products for retail stores and online outlets.
- Wholesale Telescope sourcing
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Wholesale direct orders typically require a minimum purchase quantity of as little as 10 pieces (dependent upon product)
Industries we have served:
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This is just a small sample of the services we can provide.
LUNT ENGINEERING can handle OEMs, custom designs, medium to large orders, simple parts or complete mechanical and opto-mechanical assemblies. We can quote to print or by sample part.
Point of origin will be disclosed and include: USA, China, Russia, Taiwan, Japan, and Europe.
We invite you to call or e-mail.
sales@luntengineering.com
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Just in time for summer, Lunt Solar Systems is happy to announce the new Internal Double Stack Module for the LS100THa!
Double stacking provides a truly enhanced, high definition view of the Sun’s surface details. It lowers the bandpass of the system from <0.7 Angstroms to <0.5 Angstroms, which really makes the surface “pop”!
The LS100THa can be internally double-stacked at the time of purchase or anytime thereafter. The LS100THa does not need to be returned to the factory for double-stacking as long as you have the red anodized front cell on your telescope. If you have an older model (just a white tube with no red) you will need to upgrade the scope before using the internal double stack DSII-LS100T. Should that be your situation, contact us for upgrade information.
Shipments to begin in early June, 2013.
DSII/LSS100T
Retail Price: US$1798.00
I purchased an LS80 earlier this year from the Widescreen Centre in London. Attaching my Canon EOS 5D to the scope I’ve started taking some photos. Here is one of my first attempts (28/08/12 shutter speed 1/40 ISO200).
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Here are some pictures taken with my new Lunt 60/BF1200. I’m very happy with the scope and astonished by the quality. All images are made with a DMK21-618.
More images and info about me can be found on www.astro-photo.nl
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ISS Sun transit
ISS transiting the Sun captured with: Explore Scientific 102ED APO Telescope + 4x powermate and Nikon D700 on iOptron iEQ45 mount. Focal length 2856mm, focal ratio f/28 and shutter speed 1/2000s @ ISO 320 Solar filter used (is a must to capture it): Lunt Herschel Wedge Viewing conditions: Transparency above average, Seeing poor – average
This picture consists of 5 exposures stacked and is not cropped. It was shot with continuous shooting mode (6fps) in JPEG format. The picture is normally white I added the orange color to see the details better and make it more pleasing to look at.
ISS transit details: ISS distance (range) 541.8km, transit duration 0.71s, transit time around 10:08:08am, Sun altitude 47.0°
Finally after 3months I captured the ISS transiting the Sun. Mainly the bad weather in the past months delayed the capture and the fact it does not happen every week and also it need to be on a weekend (I had to work on weekdays during daylight). Of course I’m not the first to capture it. Thanks go to Phil McGrew for introducing to me and other photographer friends the idea of capturing the ISS transit and what tools are used for calculating such event. And Thanks to Ed Morana for writing the tool to calculate the transit.
AR means active region with sunspots and other activity.
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