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Where will you “Find Your Corona©“… With less than 2 years to the Solar event of our lifetime it’s not too early to start making plans for this event. It will be viewed by many millions of people and the ONLY place worth being is along the path of totality. I have mentioned the 2017…
August 9th-11th 2018 Julian, California
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April 21st & 22nd, 2018 SUNY Rockland Community College Suffern, New York
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Lunt Solar Systems is proud to announce the new SUNocular (TM) Solar Binoculars. The Lunt 8 x 32 White Light SUNoculars. With this pocket sized instrument you can view and safely study Eclipses, Planetary Transits, and Sun Spot activity/magnetic storms. Compact, Lunt SUNoculars have a front mounted fully dense white light glass filters making Solar…
Lunt is pleased to announce the next run of LS230T/B3400/PT Solar Systems. This run will be limited to 10 instruments. However, we are excited to be offering these systems as the Double Stack version with dual USB/PC Pressure Tune control. Specifications: Objective: IR coated (Energy Rejection) 230mm doublet optimized at 656nm f/ratio: 7 Etalon 1:…
Inside Tucson Business Magazine is a local business oriented weekly publication in Tucson. They recently came out for an interview and a chance to look thru some of the Lunt Solar scopes. Here is the beginning of the article….. “Of all the beauty in nature that people take notice of in a day, the largest…
We’re back in the office !!! I hope everyone had a chance to view the Sun at would be about 2:30 thru 3:30PM (Arizona Time). A very nice prominence has been evolving all day, swirling and changing shapes. I have been testing since early this morning and have really enjoyed watching the transformations. I suspect…
For those who have googled “what’s an etalon?” the returned results outlining complex looking optical equations, mathematical relationships, and technical references probably didn’t do much to answer the question. Unless you are an Optical Physicist of course. (I love that stuff) An etalon refers to an interference type filter typically used in Solar Telescopes because…
Which is Better? The defining difference between an External etalon vs an Internal etalon has typically been Price vs Performance… Well that gap is getting very narrow. External etalons are used on the front of an existing scope, and the user typically asks that the etalon be full aperture. Internal etalons are situated internally to…