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.

We specialize in the high quality production of:

Mechanical and Opto-mechanical parts and assemblies..

• Precision machined parts in Aluminum, Brass, Copper, and Stainless Steel
• CNC machining, custom extrusions, and custom castings
• Anodizing, Paint, Laser etch, Engraving (including paint filled)
• Optical fabrication, Flats, Lenses, Filters, and Mirrors
• Optical Coatings: anti-reflection (<0.1%R), IR blocking (hot mirrors and windows), and bandpass filters (to name a few)
• If you need OEM machined parts and would like to lower their cost, give us a try.

Telescope and Astronomical Accessories..
Wholesale direct products for retail stores and online outlets.

• Wholesale Telescope sourcing
• Wholesale Binocular sourcing
• Wholesale Astronomical Accessories sourcing
• Custom parts and adapters

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

Industries we have served:

• Astronomy
• Aerospace
• Medical
• Government Research labs
• Telecommunications
• Optics
• Semiconductor

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.

Point of origin will be disclosed and include: USA, China, Russia, Taiwan, Japan, and Europe.

We invite you to call or e-mail. 
sales@luntengineering.com
Tel: (520)-780-1277

Imaging date was January 15^th, location Germany.  Weather was very nice but the seeing was not good.  Later in the afternoon the seeing got better and the sun stayed low above the horizon.  Then at 3:00 p.m. I was able to do the images.  I used my skywatcher achromat 102 mm f/660 mm the first time with Baader 2 power VIP Barlow and the CaK B1200.   The image shows NOAA groups 1401 and 1402.

Here is the awesome DSLR image from my  LS100Ha/B1800/LS100F  doublestack using a DSLR!  Canon 7D.  I  think the same crazy long technique should work with the Lunt Solar Imager,  gonna try it next.

Crackling with C-class solar  flares, a pair of active sunspots is emerging over the sun’s northeastern limb  today. Our BRASSO SID Receiver recorded 3 flares yesterday afternoon  just before sunset. BRASSO Solar Graphs can be found here: http://sid.stanford.edu/database-browser/

Sunspot 1401 produced an  M1-flare on Jan. 14th. Two days earlier, while it was still on the farside of  the sun, sunspot 1402 produced a partially-eclipsed flare of uncertain magnitude  that created waves of ionization in the atmosphere over  Europe.

To make these spots even more  interesting one needs to observe them with a Hydrogen Alpha filter. As the two  HUGE sunspots emerge over the limb they resemble a set of eyes. And to  make it even better there is a huge filament beneath them that looks like a huge  crescent, adding a smile beneath the eyes.

Imagine my surprise when I  looked in the scope today and saw this smiley face looking back at  me…..

This is a composite of 3 images  stitched together.

Scope: Lunt Solar Systems  LS60THa w/B1200CRF

Mount: Losmandy G-11 mounted in  a Skyshed POD

Camera: Canon 40D using EOS  MOV_REC capture

Each section utilized 4000  frames, Stacked in Registax v6

Image stitched and colorized in  Adobe Photoshop CS5.1

Full disk image, Lunt LS60THa & B1200 blocking Filter.  Mounted on a Losmandy G-11 in a Skyshed POD located in Amherst, Ohio.

Image acquired on January 7th, 2012.Canon 40D, 1/350 second, 800 ISO, avi file captured using EOS Image Recorder, 3500 images at 20f/s.  Aligned in Registax, best 25% stacked.  Stretched and processed in Adobe Photoshop.

Want your own Image Gallery on the Lunt website?  Email us your picture and bio, solar images and camera info to luntsolarimages@hotmail.com

Ha pictures were taken on 10-30-2011 with 60mm lunt double stacked pressure tune telescope with Lumenera 2m Color camera at 12 bit along with 3X meade barlow.

Want your own Image Gallery on the Lunt website?  Email us your picture and bio, solar images and camera info to luntsolarimages@hotmail.com

Image Details:

·        Scope:  Lunt 60mm dual stacked Etalon (60THAD/B12F)

·        Camera:  DMK41AU02 + Powermate TV 2.5x

·        Image:  Stack of 900 frames in Registax 6.0

·        Post-Processing:  PixInsight

·        Date:  2011-12-24

·        Time: 13-05-36 gmt

·        Phenomena: Huge Flare, possible a Class M, caused by the fast displacement of the AR 11376

·        Place: Santa Rita do Sapucai, Minas Gerais –Brazil (Lily’s Flower Observatory – Lat: -22d 11m 45s  Long: 45d 44m 26s W )

Image Details:

·        Scope:  Lunt 60mm dual stacked Etalon (60THAD/B12F)

·        Camera:  DMK41AU02 + Powermate TV 2.5x

·        Image:  Stack of 680 frames in Registax 6.0

·        Post-Processing:  PixInsight

·        Date:  2012-01-03

·        Time: 12-06-49 gmt

·        Phenomenon: Great solar active region around AR11389 and AR11388

·        Place: Santa Rita do Sapucai, Minas Gerais – Brazil (Lily’s Flower Observatory –Lat: -22d 11m 45s  Long: 45d 44m 26s W )

Want your own Image Gallery on the Lunt website?  Email us your picture and bio, solar images and camera info to luntsolarimages@hotmail.com

My telescope is probably one of the first LUNT that arrived in Europe, but for sure the first one in Greece…

I hope you like my photos…

Here are my pictures of January 2012

All images taken with my LS60THa/B1200 (single stack) and the DMK31AU03.AS  ccd camera seeing= 1/5…

My equipment: LUNT LS60THa/B1200&600/LS50FHa DS, Barlow CEMAX 2X DMK31AU03.AS

Below are images from November 2011

Below are images from December 2011

Want your own Image Gallery on the Lunt website?  Email us your picture and bio, solar images and camera info to luntsolarimages@hotmail.com

Image was taken in Belgium

Here’s my “first light” with the LS80THa that I received today :-).  The Sun was already low above the horizon and in a bank of Cirrus clouds.  Cool scope indeed!

All of these images were taken with a Lunt LS100T/Ha and an Imaging Source DMK51.

Barlowed image of edge of disk taken 12/14/11

Edge of disk on 12/9/11 taken with Barlow

Two frame Mosaic of the disk on 12/14/11

Two frame mosaic of full disk on 12/17/11.  Note prominence liftoff.

Two frame mosaic of Barlowed data for edge of disk on 12/17/11

The image was taken on November 21th.