We certainly appreciate being recognized by Sky and Telescope for a Hot Product of 2010 Award. This award has been presented to Lunt Solar for the LS60T/Ha/PT system. The Pressure Tuned System received an overwhelmingly positive response when shown at NEAF, RTMC, and PATS in 2009. I will be writing a full editorial about the…
Tucson, Arizona has cooled some from last week. One week ago today it was 90 degrees, today we are in the low 70s.. oooh that’s chilly… Along with the cooled temps has come some nice transparent skies. I was testing today and I am very delighted to see several good active areas and as many…
A HR LS75F Un-obstructed filter with matchable BF at <0.6Angstroms (single stack). During the process of R&D I have been working with new coating technologies that are very low stress and very high finesse. As you know, these coatings will be made available in the new LS152T. One of our recent projects was the manufacture…
In the spirit of awards and the launch of our new website, Lunt Solar will be giving away a total of US$1,000.00 in gift cards to be used toward the purchase of any Lunt product at any authorized Lunt dealer worldwide.. Entries for this event should be received by December 31st 2009. All entries received…
A quote…. “For 22 years, Popular Science has honored the innovations that surprise and amaze us — those that make a positive impact on our world today and challenge our views of what’s possible in the future,” said Mark Jannot, Editor-in-Chief of Popular Science.“The Best of What’s New Award is the magazine’s top honor, and…
As of November 1st we officially began to move into our new expanded facilities next door. Our landlord, Steve, has been nice enough to let us store our cases, shipping containers etc. over there for the last few months until the facilities were ready. The new facilities increased our square footage by about another 40%….
During this week we finally finished our 6th Continuous Polisher. All the polishers at Lunt are custom designed and fabricated on site. They are currently all 48″ diameter with a capacity for about a 12″ part. In our application we use plastic fixtures on the lap to hold multiple sizes. We also utilize a large…
I wanted to share my experience with this new gear. I don’t know what Andy does when he matches this scopes and filters up but I am just completely blown away by the views with the new LS60THa scope and my original LS50FHa filter. This set up starts to mimics views I had years back…
The new Lunt Solar Website is almost finished!……..It is almost finished… right?………. With DNS transfer scheduled for Wednesday, November 11 I am excited about finally starting on a website dedicated to everything Solar. With live streams in Ha and CaK, news and events, forums, galleries, and editorials provided by the users of solar equipment. We…
The first week of November has flown by. A week ago today we were getting ready for Halloween night, it’ll be Thanksgiving before you know it! Testing, new products, and website were the projects of the week. The image at left is the New LS152T/PT. This is currently the largest dedicated telescope that we manufacture….
The diagram above shows the system has been fully pressurized. This pressure is equivalent to about a 10,000 ft altitude change. The air inside the sealed chamber has been compressed due to the reduced volume. As a result the refractive index of the air has increased and caused the CWL of the etalon to move…
The diagram shown above indicates that the air pressure inside the sealed chamber has been increased. At this point the CWL of the bandpass is at 656.28nm. At this position we are looking at the Hydrogen-alpha line and the energy associated with that wavelength. The sealing of the cavity is done via the collimating and…