LS60THa Lunt Solar Scope - playing around

First time setting up my new solar telescope and trying some camera setting and filter tuning. The Scope is a Lunt LS 60 THa - Solar Telescope. Equiped with a tunable Hydrogen Alpha narrowband filter and a second H-Alpha filter as a double stack which i audibly screw on in the beginning of the video. Both filters can be tuned to preference and reveal prominences, flares, spikes and filaments on the edge of the limb of the sun or sunspots, granulation and prominences etc on the disc... It's very amazing. Look up http://www.luntsolarsystems.com/ for more on those amazing instruments.

The quality of this video is not great. You see a lot more with the bare eye than the camera can. Next time i will use the computerized telescope mount and take high quality picture so i can make a nice timelapse... that should look a lot better and more interesting than this. I had fun though.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Lunt
• LS60THa
• Double Stack
• Solar
• Sun
• Telescope
• 7d
• Canon
• solar max
• solar activity
• sunspot
• solar flare

[AxelFlyingV]

Lucky you.!!! I got an LS60 double stack  recently, the viewing in single stack is poor.= very faint granulation, and vigneting (to the trained eye), little bit better than a PST with more resolution. The solarmax40 I have outperformed it.Perhaps it is a problem of this perticular piece.I ave had solarscopes through the past years and I am a dedicated solar observer and photographer.The double stack never worked what a frustration and money spend

[longipes]

@AxelFlyingV

That really is frustrating, can't you talk to lunt about that. They should be supposed to deliver good material. At least there should be a cutoff point from which a filter is considered too bad to be sold. Or mine is just exceptionally good which of course i would be thrilled to find out. Still sorry it didnt work out as well for you.

[stephenramsden]

I love my Lunt scopes...I have had no issues with their technical or sales support.

[AxelFlyingV]

@longipes I have to correct my above comment. Lunt send me an informative email yesterday with some info and questions, so finally there some support from them too and I am thankful for that.

Clear Skies.!

[AxelFlyingV]

@longipes .Yep for more about processing there are a few sources around.I got some solar imaging tips from astro-nut(dot)com. As imaging goes for CCD camera many preffer the DFK41 or 31. See solarastrophotography(dot)com , and strehlbuster(dot)com.

[AxelFlyingV]

@longipes Thank you !!! I guess not all products are perfect , and that goes to everything. Hopefully all be fixed sooner or latter through the supportive dealer and enjoy the DS.

[longipes]

@AxelFlyingV

ah ok didnt catch this first. Crossed fingers all will work out in the end! thx for the photography advice! RAW is a good idea. I have a canon (7d) though but that doesnt make much of a difference to the tips you gave. thx again!

[AxelFlyingV]

Forgot to say , yep will send back to the dealer. But absolutely no support from the company about a week no that reported the problem through their official web site. Cheers , clear skies.!

[AxelFlyingV]

If you try photography with Nikon DSLR try RAW or TIFF on monochrome mode-custom with reduced sharpening.Open and adjust basic RAW with the capture NX and save as tiff, then you can further adjust in photoshop. I'd suggest STI focuser it is the best aid for that in the market. Cheers.!

[ZmajSnoshaj]

Oh this is f**kin' sweet.... what a noble endeavor! Keep up the good work!!!! Wow....