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Lunt Solar Systems would like to congratulate Hal Clark, winner of the LS35THaDX solar scope at Oceanside Photo and Telescope’s (OPT) Southern California Astronomy Expo (SCAE). We hope you enjoy your Lunt solar scope!
The LS35THa is the smallest of the Lunt line, packages start at $499.00 for the L35THa standard model. The LS35T is a great intro scope into the world of H-Alpha viewing or even a second scope for grab and go H-Alpha observing! Like the rest of the Lunt line the LS35T can be doublestacked with the addition of a LS35FHa to provide an even more detailed view of the solar disk!
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 this little piece of feed back the other day from a brand new Lunt owner! Check out what he had to say.
Hi Rikki, I have been playing with my new Lunt scope and wanted to tell you how happy I am with this fantastic instrument! With my new Tele Vue Binovue's and 24 panoptics, the images are breathtaking! Almost 3D and incredible! I can't wait to get the double stack filter to see what that does, but this is amazing! Thanks to everyone at Lunt for making such a fine machine! Sincerely, Tom
Thanks Tom for the feed back! We really do enjoy hearing that you are enjoying your Lunt equipment, it is awesome to see what amazing images and sketches are being produced through our filters and scopes. Please send us in your pictures so we can post them here 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.
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.
H-Alpha is red, Ca-K is blue, and for Jim Ferreira its all a view in black and white. Located in Livermore, California, Jim has been producing high resolution H-Alpha images of the heavens for quite sometime. From deep sky objects to our nearest star, his images bring back the old school feel of simplistic black and white while providing views with remarkable detail!
Photo by Jim Ferreira
While many of his images are moments frozen in time, not all are still! Lately Jim has been dabbling with the art of time laps photography with the aid of his DMK21 video camera. The ability to show massive prominences dancing across the sun is truly something to behold! But how does he capture such images? Currently Jim uses an LS50F attached to him SV102ED refractor, he someday hopes to add an LS75F or LS100F to use for higher magnification images and video while using the LS50F for full disk images.
Jim’s SV102ED with the LS50F and piggy backed white light scope.
Unlike other imagers Jim chooses to image solely in black and white, but why? “I do very little viewing with an eyepiece”, he says. Most if not all of his viewing time takes place at the monitor of his computer. He keeps his images black and white to match what would be seen in the eyepiece. “It’s also kind’a an old school thing”, says Jim. His inspiration for black and white images dates back to his childhood while watching time laps images of solar flares in science class.
Jim continues to produce some amazing images, much of them can be seen on the popular astronomy forum website Cloudy Nights. He also posts all his work including his dramatic night time images on his personal website: Astrophotography by Jim Ferreira. Check it out and keep an eye out as he produces more of his signature black and white images!
Photo by Jim Ferreira
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.
Yesterday, amateur astronomer Brian Shelton imaged the sun with his LS152T and what an image it was! The images looks as if you are orbiting the sun itself!
Great job Brian!
Its amazing the images we are getting so please keep sending 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.