We have been SHOUTING this from the Rooftops and you should be too! This incredible system is a Solar Telescope that converts to a Night Time Telescope in a few easy steps! That’s right, you can observe and image the Sun activity all day then, once converted to Night Mode, you can view and image Planets, Nebulas and…
It’s that time of year again! So, to make your purchasing decision a little easier we have listed of all of our current in-stock items. When you purchase one of the listed in-stock items your shipping is free (in the continental United States only). Whether it’s a telescope, the latest and greatest SUNocular or some accessories we…
Lunt is currently hiring for the following positions: Outside sales person. Optical/Mechanical Technician. Machine shop coordinator. For more information on these openings please contact Nicolas Lopez at n.lopez@luntsolarsystems.com for more information. Openings will be updated on a weekly basis.
Make sure you watch this in FULL screen… Simply Beautiful!
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…