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Thanks to: Howard
Lunt Solar CaK Filter

A very nice image from Florida.

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The Sun is our Star!

.......and as you would expect, our Star is hot, bright, dynamic, and sometimes quite violent.

At 93 million miles away, we are ideally placed at a point where the Sun provides just enough warmth and energy essential to our living planet, Earth.
At only 93 million miles, the Sun is close enough for us to view it's surface thru a relatively inexpensive scope from the comfort and relative safety (Sunscreen please) of our backyards on a clear and warm day.

What! Astronomy during the day? Lunt Solar wants to show you how.

References

Prominences:
These look like eruptions from the edge of the Solar disk. Prominences can be small spikey looking details, or large cloud-like detail with fine feather-like features.

They are, in fact, ionized Hydrogen-alpha emissions being projected from the linb.

Prominences are anchored to the Sun's surface in the Mesosphere, and extend outward into the Sun's Troposhere.
They typically measure many earth diameters.

Filaments:
These are strin-like features on the surface of the Sun.

At high resultion they take on a 3D effect due to the coller aspect of the suspended filament contrasted against the bright, hotter Sun.

They are actually prominences being viewed against the surface.

Spicules
A Spicule is a dynamic jet of gas about 500km long.
They move outward at about 20km/second thru the Chromosphere.

Father Angelo Secchi of the Vatican Observatory discovered them in 1877.

The Chromosphere is entirely composed of Spicules. These features can be seen as "fur"around the edge of the disk.


There's definately stuff to look at :)

Archive for the ‘LS75F’ Category

August 17th, 2010

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!

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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.

July 15th, 2010

Lunt Solar Systems will be attending the SCAE event at OPT in Oceanside, California this Saturday, July 17th, 2010!  If you are in the area please stop by and take a look through our scopes!  Andy Lunt will be giving a talk  about his recent eclipse trip to Easter Island.  Come see him talk and answer any questions you may have!

Hope to see you there!

www.optcorp.com/scae.aspx

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. Feel free to contact us with question or comments and we’d be happy to help.

July 7th, 2010

Well Arizona Solar Conference/ALCon 2010 has come and gone, we thank everyone who came out and joined us under the sun!  It was truly a great time and we hope to see you all again!

During the event we raffled off hats, shirts, and a brand new LS60THa/B600CPT with Sol Searcher and Zoom Eyepiece; this is one of our most popular scope packages!!  The lucky winner of this scope was Gil Bartee!  Congratulations Gil, we hope you enjoy it!

Here are some pictures from the event!

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. Feel free to contact us with question or comments and we’d be happy to help.

February 5th, 2010

We were able to get a spacer to make the very last LS75F/B1200.  Although this will be the last Unobstructed 75 produced for quite a while, we do have a very interesting, and sure to be on many want lists, system coming up in the next couple of weeks. You will find more info listed here as soon as it becomes available.

LS75F/B1200 Unobstructed
This is the very last LS75F Unobstructed to be produced at this time.
The Filter is in New and Excellent condition.

When ordering, please let us know the altitude at which you intend to use the Filter. Although the Filter has a wide range of tunability, we want to ensure that it is optimized for your use.
ie: If you intend to use at 9,000ft, it will need to be tuned slightly higher.

Price US$3,985.00 (other BFs available at modified cost)
Subject to prior sales etc. etc.. There’s only 1.

Posted in..... LS75F, lunt solar
January 12th, 2010

Savio was kind enough to send in an image taken thru one of the special edition single stack LS75F’s.

The image was taken via one of David Leong’s 15 year old students, and although the filter had only just arrived, the initial shots are very good. I am looking forward to seeing just how good these images will get after a little practice with the filter.

The image was taken the the Lunt 75F mounted on a TMB 80-480 with 2X Barlow, and a DMK21AU04.AS

Unfortunately we sold out of these special edition 75s. There has been many queries for doublestacking the several we sold, and from people who have recently heard about the filters and were looking for availability.

Lunt Solar will be offering limited edition filters throughout the year. These filters will be announced in the upcoming community area of the website (coming next week). Our next special will certainly be a popular one. But, once their gone, their are gone.. At this time there are no plans to release the LS75F Un-obstructed as a standard product and we are not accepting orders for future limited runs ;)

I will be updating the status on the much anticipated LS152T later this week.

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 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. Feel free to contact us with question or comments and we’d be happy to help.

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