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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 :)

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March 23rd, 2012

All images were taken with Lunt Solar TelescopeLS60T, and imaging source dmk31 .

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March 23rd, 2012

Below are pictures of the solar region NOAA 1429 of 13 and 14 March 2012.

Equipment used for imaging: LS100THa DMK31 TITAN mount

Location: Ager (SPAIN)

My equipment also includes CAK module and Herschel Wedge, both LUNT.





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March 15th, 2012

I began Solar viewing in 2009 when a bought the LS60mmHa with the B600, after a few years I bought the 50mm filter to stack the scope and the B1200 so I could begin imaging.  Enjoy!

LUNT 60mm BOUBLE STACK FILTER WITH B1200 CAMERA DMK41 IMAGING SOURCE FILTER UV/IR CUT BAADER MOVIE 1000 FRAMES AVISTACK AVERAGE 300-400 FRAMES PHOTOSHOP ELEMENT 7.0 AND  ZoomBroswer EX (canon) POWERMATE 2.5X WAS USED FOR SOME PICTURE


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February 8th, 2012

I have been interested in solar astronomy since 1975.  Me and my wife Joanne are chasing solar eclipses and have now observed 40 solar eclipses and 5 transits.  I founded the solar eclipse mailing list in 1997, the solar eclipse newsletter in 1996 and organised international solar eclipse conferences at non-central solar eclipse year.

Tweeting about the solar eclipse calendar see @PatrickPoitevin and blogspot at  http://solareclipsespp.blogspot.com/

My wife bought me as a present the Lunt 35 DMK41, in preparation for the next eclipses or transits.  I am for sure enjoying the Lunt35 very much.

See images below taken from Derbyshire, UK.  Enjoy!




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February 2nd, 2012

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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.

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

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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.

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We invite you to call or e-mail.
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