The Lap: Lunt mixes a proprietary blend of Gugolz pitch for the precision polishing of our Etalon plates via our Continuous Polishing process. The pitch being poured serves as the base for the polishing process. The pitch lap will be scored into a triangular looking pattern using a metal comb by hand. The lap is…
Lunt Solar Systems is teaming up with NASA to livestream 8K video of the 2024 total solar eclipse. Lunt will build an improved version of the SunLab — a giant telescope mounted on a mobile trailer that Lunt used with NASA to livestream the 2017 total solar eclipse — and haul it to Carbondale, IL for…
This article, published by Mark Johnston on Astronomhub, explains the differences between viewing the Sun with H-alpha and white light setups.
The Lunt Solar Systems team recently joined Tony Darnell from DeepAstronomy.com and Dustin Gibson from OPT Telescopes for an episode of OPT’s Space Junk Podcast about Solar Telescopes and Solar Observation! Solar Cycle 25 has officially begun, with Solar Maximum looming on the horizon (July, 2025) and the Lunt Crew takes a few moments to…
Here is a brief description of the data path from the RED 8k back. Data leaves the DSMCII RED camera through a RED Jetpack SDI that routes the compressed data through a Gigabit Ethernet cable that goes through a 24 port router. Directly from the router into 100tb remote servers at general compression. These will…
The Lunt Sunlab was built by Lunt Solar in 2017 for NASA for the “great American Eclipse” project. A highly successful project that broadcast the eclipse in many digital formats in 2017 from Carbondale, Illinois. The SunLab will be re-built at Lunt Solar in Tucson and will be a mobile and robotic facility that will capture the daily activity…
Lunt Etalons are precision crafted at our manufacturing facility in Tucson, Arizona. We start with precision cut UV grade Fused Silica blanks that we purchase from a glass supplier in Massachusetts.We use UV grade due to the higher specifications that UV grade material has for reduced bubbles and striae. Both of which would negatively effect…
Instrument: SPEX 1.26M Monochrometer Above is an image of one of our Etalons taken by an independent lab. Specifications: Lunt Solar 50mm Etalon Center Wavelength: 656.28nmPeak Transmission: 79.89%Bandwidth: 0.7 Angstroms (FWHM)FSR: 12.5 Angstroms Our etalons were tested in a blind test along with several etalons from other manufacturers. A) One of the other manufacturers had…
Lunt Solar products are a lot more than the specification that you see when comparing manufacturers. Lunt was started in 2007. Lunt had the advantage of being able to completely re-invent the Solar Telescope from the ground up. We were able to improve on issues that we had seen in previous products and introduce significant…
Step 1: Getting Started This guide will take you through the steps of building a Solar Telescope that fits your viewing expectations (whether they be Visual or Imaging or both) to your budget while answering the most common questions (along the way) about the various choices and the reasons behind those choices and how they…
If you have an interest in getting into Solar Astronomy you probably have a lot of questions, and while searching through the online forums for answers is a good place to start, you will have to navigate the personal opinions and the facts. It is important to have a basic understanding of how various telescopes and…
We were super excited to host our visitors from GEOASTRORV. Check out this portion of their article about their visit, and be sure to visit the rest of their blog at geoastrorv.com. GEOASTRORV — Our Geology and Astronomy RV Journey Last fall, we purchased a Lunt 152THa solar telescope. This 152 mm (6″) f/6 hydrogen-alpha (h-alpha) telescope has…