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
• Wholesale Binocular sourcing
• Wholesale Astronomical Accessories sourcing
• Custom parts and adapters

Wholesale direct orders typically require a minimum purchase quantity of as little as 10 pieces (dependent upon product)

Industries we have served:

• Astronomy
• Aerospace
• Medical
• Government Research labs
• Telecommunications
• Optics
• Semiconductor

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
Tel: (520)-780-1277

You will find many great Solar images in the blog area. Here are a few tips:

1. The product pages for Lunt products have links to images taken by users thru these instruments.
2. 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).
3. 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.

The Imaging contest is closed…..

In the spirit of the holiday season Lunt is having an imaging contest… Break out your Lunt Scopes and cameras….

Congratulations to Brian Colville. You are the winner of the Lunt Winter Raffle and will receive a US$500 gift certificate good toward the purchase of any Lunt product/s.

NOTE: We are aware that some of the links to the contest images are currently broken due to a server crash with our hosting ISP. However, all entries were added to the raffle.
Lunt will open voting for the best image submitted as soon as all the images are re-uploaded to the new server and can be viewed.

We would like to thank everyone who entered. The contest was a success and we were very pleased with the quality of the entries. Check back soon for information on how to vote for your favotite image, and for our upcoming Spring competition..

Enter the Lunt imaging contest for a chance to win a $500.00 Lunt Gift Certificate good toward the purchase of any Lunt product.

For every image taken thru a Lunt product that is submitted you will receive a raffle ticket for entry into the $500 drawing. Submit 1 image and receive 1 raffle ticket. Submit 5 different images and receive 5 chances.  Maximum of 5 submissions per person per month.

In addition to the raffle, the top 10 images selected by Lunt will be placed on our blog for a vote. The top 3 images picked by you will each receive a $100 Lunt Gift Certificate.

• Images must be taken after November 1st 2011 (no images taken prior to this date will be accepted)
• Maximum of 5 images per person per month
• Images must be taken thru a Lunt product (if you don’t have one, you should get one, or borrow one)
• Image file must state your name, date taken, and Lunt equipment used
• Each submission must be distinctly different from other submissions by the same person
• While we will not insist on high imaging quality, we do expect images of reasonable detail and clarity
• Submission of your image provides expressed permission for Lunt to utilize them in it’s ads and marketing materials
• Submit your images in .jpg format to Jen c/o luntsolarimages@hotmail.com (links to images will not be accepted)
• The drawing will be done after receipt of the 200th image…

The virtual raffle tickets will be posted in this area with your name as the images are received.. Please allow a day or 2 for the images to be processed and entries to be updated.

Check back often to see the entries and BEST of LUCK!!!

Images Entered so far are below!!  Check them out!

• P. Molnar (1)
• J. Lafferty (9)
• D. Klepp (5)
• M. Johannesen (2)
• J. Munoz (2)
• O. Hardy (2)
• P. Porcellana (7)
• B. Schlein (3)
• T. Dobosz (8)
• C & T Temple (8)
• S. Poirier (11)
• M. Precision (1)
• P. Re (12)
• P. Manteca (6)
• J. Munoz Reales (5)
• B. Colville (10)
• A. Tsang (5)
• E. Africa (5)
• G. Miller (5)
• J. Stare (1)
• T. Smoot (5)
• P. Desypris (9)
• G. Vandenbulcke (1)
• F. Pinheiro Guimaraes (2)
• E. Delijanin (3)
• J. O’Neal (1)

I know, I know… how can anyone get a better picture…?

Here is the awesome DSLR image from my  LS100Ha/B1800/LS100F  doublestack using a DSLR!  Canon 7D.  I  think the same crazy long technique should work with the Lunt Solar Imager,  gonna try it next.

January 15^th,  2012

Crackling with C-class solar  flares, a pair of active sunspots is emerging over the sun’s northeastern limb  today. Our BRASSO SID Receiver recorded 3 flares yesterday afternoon  just before sunset. BRASSO Solar Graphs can be found here: http://sid.stanford.edu/database-browser/

Sunspot 1401 produced an  M1-flare on Jan. 14th. Two days earlier, while it was still on the farside of  the sun, sunspot 1402 produced a partially-eclipsed flare of uncertain magnitude  that created waves of ionization in the atmosphere over  Europe.

To make these spots even more  interesting one needs to observe them with a Hydrogen Alpha filter. As the two  HUGE sunspots emerge over the limb they resemble a set of eyes. And to  make it even better there is a huge filament beneath them that looks like a huge  crescent, adding a smile beneath the eyes.

Imagine my surprise when I  looked in the scope today and saw this smiley face looking back at  me…..

This is a composite of 3 images  stitched together.

Scope: Lunt Solar Systems  LS60THa w/B1200CRF

Mount: Losmandy G-11 mounted in  a Skyshed POD

Camera: Canon 40D using EOS  MOV_REC capture

Each section utilized 4000  frames, Stacked in Registax v6

Image stitched and colorized in  Adobe Photoshop CS5.1

Full disk image, Lunt LS60THa & B1200 blocking Filter.  Mounted on a Losmandy G-11 in a Skyshed POD located in Amherst, Ohio.

Image acquired on January 7th, 2012.Canon 40D, 1/350 second, 800 ISO, avi file captured using EOS Image Recorder, 3500 images at 20f/s.  Aligned in Registax, best 25% stacked.  Stretched and processed in Adobe Photoshop.

Want your own Image Gallery on the Lunt website?  Email us your picture and bio, solar images and camera info to luntsolarimages@hotmail.com

Cak pictures were taken on 11-18-2011 Lumenera 2m Color camera in 12 bit mode with 3 X meade barlow on my 90mm Apogee achromat refractor  focal length of 6.1 mm

Ha pictures were taken on 10-30-2011 with 60mm lunt double stacked pressure tune telescope with Lumenera 2m Color camera at 12 bit along with 3X meade barlow.

Want your own Image Gallery on the Lunt website?  Email us your picture and bio, solar images and camera info to luntsolarimages@hotmail.com