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As the end of the year quickly comes to a close things begin to change; many of us think over the past year and look towards the holiday season for a time of giving and warmth. Well here at Lunt Solar we decided to do a little giving this year.
As many people know our Newtonian based LS200THa solar scope never made it to the market and for the passed year the optics and tubes have remained in storage. Well in mid-October 2010 the scopes were officially donated to Stephen Ramsden and his out reach organization known as the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project. These scopes will be distributed as kit projects to Georgia schools to help further the education in science and astronomy! We are quite pleased to know that these scopes will be used for a good purpose. Stephen would like to thank Andy Lunt, Rikki Hocking, Brian Stephens, Alan Traino, Theo Ramakers, Frank Garner, Tim Nix and Tom Sewell for helping making this awesome project come together.
Below are some pictures of the first kit donated being put together:
To learn more about the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project please visit their website at www.charliebates.org
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 LS152T and even the LS230T. Solar observing is both fun and educational. Don’t miss out on Solar Maximum.
Yes, this is a little change of pace for Lunt Solar System, an image of the moon?
Well last week well known Solar Outreach guru and imager Stephen Ramsden of Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project aimed his 127EDT refractor at the nearly full moon and capture the 10 frame mosaic below.
Now I’m sure many of you are asking, what does this have to do with Lunt and solar astronomy? Well this entire image was taken through a Lunt 2″ Solar Wedge! The Solar Wedge was used without an of its polarizing filters as the wedge does all the work, most of the light passes through the wedge like it would with the sun passing only a fraction of the light up to the camera. The final image was stitched using iMerge to give a beautiful Lunar Mosaic!
To see more images from Stephen as well as pictures from his countless solar out reach events please see his website: Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project
We love getting images from our users so please continue to send them in!
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 LS152T and even the LS230T. Solar observing is both fun and educational. Don’t miss out on Solar Maximum.
The sun has been putting on quite a show lately with sun spots 1109, 1110, and 1111 crossing the surface! Images have been popping up across astronomy forums for the last few weeks! The sun is indeed coming alive!
This image was taken a few days ago by solar imager Kevin Fookes and his LS60THa! Impeccable detail seen through out the image!
Please keep sending us your images and we will get them posted up on the 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.
We received these images from a brand new LS60THa Pressure Tune owner in Germany! These are his first images! Thank you for sharing!
We love seeing the awesome images people are producing with their Lunt Solar Systems! Please continue to send them in!
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.
In today’s world of amateur astronomy many chose to capture images with DSLR and CCD cameras. But for some astronomers they still chose another route, sketching. Sketching is an amazing way to observe, carefully examining the object, making sure to capture the smallest of details. It is truly an art and also a measure of patients, but this hasn’t stopped many of today’s amateurs. Sketching is alive and well, a quick look around many of the solar forums of the large astronomy websites and sketches of the sun can be seen every day!
One such sketcher is Alan Strauss. Alan has become a well respected solar sketch artist on the forums of Cloudy Nights, posting a sketch nearly every morning! Much of Alan’s work is done through his LS60THa/PT and his TEC140ED with a Lunt Solar Wedge for white light. His sketches truly capture an impressive amount of detail! Detailed surface detail, strong active regions, dark filaments, and raging prominences can all be seen in his sketches, much like a CCD image! Below is one of his sketches through his LS60THa/PT.
While Alan does much of his sketching from his home observatory, Lost Pleiad Observatory, he does bring out his gear to some of the larger Arizona star parties. I had the pleasure of meeting Alan and his good friend and observing partner Jerry Farrar at the All Arizona Messier Marathon in March 2010. Both of them spent nearly an hour and half sketching through the LS60T, TEC140, and LS152T making sure they caught every last detail!
(One of Alan’s White Light Sketches)
Though Alan spends a considerable amount of time under the sun, he also does a lot of deep sky work, sketching galaxies, nebula, and star clusters; all of which can be seen on his website (click the link above).
Sketching takes time and practice like anything else, Alan gives thanks to his observing partner Jerry Farrar for teaching him the ways of sketching and observing. Alan plans to continue his sketching, always refining his techniques and constantly learning. He hopes to one day upgrade to the LS100THa which will provide even high resolution and help capture finer details!
Sketching is indeed an art, it requires patients and a steady eye. So give it a try next time your out on a scope! Even just a basic drawing of what you see, this can help with further observations, maybe through different scopes, different filters, and different observing sites. Most importantly, go out and have a good time!
(Alan’s White Light set up; TEC140ED with Lunt 2″ Solar Wedge)
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.