Double Stack Filters vs Single Stack Filter (part 2)
continued from part 1 Uniformity of the etalon plates To continue where I left off in my last post, this widening of the BP from center to edge can be caused uniformity of the etalon plates,...
View ArticleDouble Stack Filters vs Single Stack Filter (part 3)
(continued from part 2) FWHM At the FWHM, or the 42.5%T point: The bandpass is measured in a single system at 0.7A. In DS system the bandpass is the multiplication of the 2 interference filters, 0.7A x...
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Your New Lunt Solar Telescope Arrived! Now What?
Now that your new Lunt Solar Telescope has arrived, it’s time to get moving and viewing! However, where to start? This blog will go through all the necessary thing to do to view with your new Lunt...
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The Transit of Mercury, November 2019
Set your calendar for the Transit of Mercury! Mercury, for the first time in almost 3 years, will transit our Sun on Monday, November 11th, 2019! Mercury will cross between the Earth and the Sun at...
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GEOASTRORV – Visiting Lunt Solar Systems in Tucson
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 their page the full Article on geoastrorv.com. GEOASTRORV –...
View ArticleA Simplified Explanation of Solar Telescopes
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...
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An Explanation of the Steps to Buying a Solar Telescope
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...
View ArticleThere’s more to the Eye than Specifications
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...
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We’re proud of our Etalons
Instrument: SPEX 1.26M Monochrometer Here is an image of one of our Etalons taken by an independent lab. Specifications: Lunt Solar 50mm Etalon Center Wavelength: 656.28nm Peak Transmission: 79.89%...
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How a Lunt Etalon is Made (Part 1)
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...
View ArticleWhy does Lunt have PPE?
Lunt takes safety very seriously. I have been in the Solar Safety business for over 20 years. My business requires that we adhere to the highest of safety standards. We would never offer any product...
View ArticleSunLab Image Capture & Processing
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...
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Lunt on Space Junk Podcast!
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...
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