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March 24th 2012
The LS230T are shipping.

Stephen Ramsden’s Corner

Outreach, Imaging, and Reviewsbr>

Thanks Stephen for all your hard work.

Image of the week

Here is the Solar Image of the Week.
Thanks to: Howard
Lunt Solar CaK Filter

A very nice image from Florida.

Real Time Images: The Very Latest from SOHO

SOHO, the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, is a project of international collaboration between ESA and NASA to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind.

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Solar Telescopes

LS35T (Basic)

LS35T (Deluxe)

LS60T (Basic)

LS60T/PT (Visual)

LS60T/PT (Imaging)

LS80T/PT (Intermediate)

LS100T/PT (Advanced)

LS152T/PT (Advanced)

LS230T/PT (Professional)

Hydrogen Filters

LS50F (50mm Filter)

LS60F (60mm Filter)

LS100F (100mm Filter)

Calcium-K Filters

CaK Filters (Diagonals)

Adapters

LS50F adapter plates

LS100F adapter plates

Accessories

Focuser (Mini-Helical)

Focuser (Crayford 11:1)

Sol Searcher

Zoom Eyepiece (7.2-21.5mm)

Merchandise

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 :)

Chad Rademan

June 24th, 2012

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A few images from the Transit of Venus attached. These were taken in Hong Kong from Ma Wan, a small, historic island in Victoria Harbour. Two of the shots show the transit, and the last one was just moments after the transit (but was the best exposure). The photos also highlight the ease of use of the equipment, as I’d just purchased the new h-alpha scope days earlier.

As for me, I’m an American from Pennsylvania. Have lived in Asia since 1996 and currently work in the financial field in Hong Kong. I’m a photography and astronomy enthusiast.

Setup details:

Telescope is a Lunt LS60T Ha / B1200 / FT purchased from Galaxy Scientific in Hong Kong.
Camera is a Canon EOS Rebel T1i DSLR.
Images processed in Canon Digital Photo Professional 3.9.2 for iMac

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Vid Nikolic

June 1st, 2012

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Shot with Canon EOS 5D Mk II using video mode. Astrotech 65mm refractor telescope with Lunt 50mm H-alpha filter and BF 1200. Mosaic of 12 images.

Location: Croatia, Europe

Just got my new Lunt PT60/BF1200 solar scope and made this 20 images mosaic with DMK AU41 mono camera. Each image is a stack of 800 frames. Enjoy!

2012 July 28

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

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Zheng Chen

May 30th, 2012

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I am astronomical amateur from china. I have been interested in Solar Ha imaging since earlier this year. At first I bought a LS35Tha/DX and took many photos. I found the sun is different every time I took, it made me excited, so I decided to buy a LS80THa. After I got a LS80THa/PT/B1200C, I found LS80T is obviously superior to LS35T in many details, I am satisfied with LS80THa.

I used a DMK21 at first, its resolution is not enough. It’s difficult to take full disk by DMK21, so I bought DMK41 for solar imaging. Amazing solar and superior scopes, they make me so excited.

I will send you more images as I take them. I am glad to share and exchange experience with each other, and I can learn from other amateurs also.
Below is my most recent works, thanks for looking.

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Steve Riegel

May 30th, 2012

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I thought you might like to see some shots I took through my Lunt 60/50 doublestack using a DMK31 with 0.5x focal reducer. This was my first eclipse with one of your scopes and it was absolutely awesome! We got cut shot at sunset but it made for a cool finish to the event. The animation was shot at roughly 2-minute intervals, with 1-minute intervals around annularity.