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Archive for the ‘flares’ Category
The sun continues to put on quite a show today with its array of active regions. The image below shows AR1226 and 1227 with their collection of dancing filaments. Currently there are six active regions visible on the sun, providing a lot of different things to view and image! It will be exciting to see what unfolds over the next few days as some of these regions have been producing C-class flares.
For the last few weeks the sun has grown quiet again. After spoiling many of us with awesome active regions, prominences, filaments, etc… Well over the last couple days the sun has unleashed a angry display with AR1226 and AR1227 which has unleashed several C-class flares! Solar observers around the world are urged to keep the scopes trained on the sun for the next several days.
Stephen Ramsden of the famous non-profit Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project snapped these two amazing images this morning using some of his personal Lunt gear.
This awesome image was captured with Stephen’s LS80THa single stack and a DMK41. Detailed views of prominences, active regions and filaments can clearly be seen across the solar disk! While things in H-alpha looked awesome the view in white light was also quite a sight! The image below was captured using an Explore Scientific 127ED Triplet Apo. refractor using the Lunt 2″ Solar Wedge and DMK41 camera. The crisp views of the granulation and awesome detailed images of the collection of sunspots makes this a truly awesome image!
For more information about Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project and the famous S.U.N.S.P.O.T. truck check out www.charliebates.org!
We truly enjoy seeing the images being shot with our products! Please continue to keep sending in you images and we will put them on our blog.
About Lunt Solar Systems LLC…
Lunt Solar Systems is a manufacturing and sales facility located in Tucson, Arizona. Lunt Solar design, fabricate, assemble, and test solar telescopes and solar filters. Whether you are looking for a dedicated solar telescope or a solar filter for attachment to you own astronomy telescope, we can help. Solar telescopes models start at $499 for an LS35T (telescope) or the only slightly more expensive LS50F (filter), all the way thru the 152T and the 160F. Solar observing is both fun and educational. Don’t miss out on Solar Maximum.
A few days ago we revieved this awesome little video! This set of images was captured by solar imager Michael Buxton with his Takahashi 102 refractor and LS75F-Ha Double Stacked filters.
Click the link below to view the video of a solar prominence looping above the sun’s surface!
About Lunt Solar Systems LLC…
Lunt Solar Systems is a manufacturing and sales facility located in Tucson, Arizona. Lunt Solar design, fabricate, assemble, and test solar telescopes and solar filters. Whether you are looking for a dedicated solar telescope or a solar filter for attachment to you own astronomy telescope, we can help. Solar telescopes models start at $499 for an LS35T (telescope) or the only slightly more expensive LS50F (filter), all the way thru the 152T and the 160F. Solar observing is both fun and educational. Don’t miss out on Solar Maximum.
Last month imager Brain Johnson tested out his brand new B3400 blocking filter on his LS100THa and boy did he use that blocker to its full potential! The B3400 is currently the largest blocking filter in the Lunt family, this massive blocker is designed inside a 2″ straight through barrel allowing the largest of CCD cameras to be used! For the shot below Brian used the famous SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera that sports an awesome full frame CCD sensor. The field of view (FOV) is huge, its large chip allows Brian to image the entire solar disk in one shot!
Brian’s image shows an extremely detailed solar disk with two large active regions, a sun spot, and countless filaments!
Thanks for sending in your image Brian!
Image Specs:
LS100T-Ha B3400
SBIG STL-11000 class 0 chip
0.011 exposure
About Lunt Solar Systems LLC…
Lunt Solar Systems is a manufacturing and sales facility located in Tucson, Arizona. Lunt Solar design, fabricate, assemble, and test solar telescopes and solar filters. Whether you are looking for a dedicated solar telescope or a solar filter for attachment to you own astronomy telescope, we can help. Solar telescopes models start at $499 for an LS35T (telescope) or the only slightly more expensive LS50F (filter), all the way thru the 152T and the 160F. Solar observing is both fun and educational. Don’t miss out on Solar Maximum.
Sunspot 1092 has been the main target for most solar observers over the last several days. While this large sunspot hasn’t produced much activity is has still been quite a view!
July 31, 2010 Eduard Garcia-Ribera of Spain captured some incredible images of 1092.
To capture these images Eduard used his LS100T for H-Alpha, B600 Ca-K Module, and Lunt Solar Wedge on his ED100 refractor.
Keep an eye on the sun, some more active regions as well as sunspot 1093 are slowly coming into view!
We enjoy seeing the images you are taking, please send them in and they could end up on a blog post!
About Lunt Solar Systems LLC…
Lunt Solar Systems is a manufacturing and sales facility located in Tucson, Arizona. Lunt Solar design, fabricate, assemble, and test solar telescopes and solar filters. Whether you are looking for a dedicated solar telescope or a solar filter for attachment to you own astronomy telescope, we can help. Solar telescopes models start at $499 for an LS35T (telescope) or the only slightly more expensive LS50F (filter), all the way thru the 152T and the 160F. Solar observing is both fun and educational. Don’t miss out on Solar Maximum.