Lunt Solar Scopes

I'd seriously consider the 50mm

Hmm, very very very tempted myself. Should be about 50% brighter than the 40mm PST I guess + no sweet spot effect & the ability to use a scope with crayford focusser and more inwards travel. And it's on a special of $699 at the moment.

Do you know if they have a 60mm Filter in the pipeline? If they do I may wait and hold onto the PST until that comes out.

I'm still amazed that they could release them at those prices.

Trev

The company now has a website for Europe:

www.luntsolarsystems-europe.de/html/

Guys,

I would be worried about the quoted bandpass of "<0.8A". People are spending extra bucks (and/or euros) to stack their filters so as to be under 0.5A. The lower the bandpass tolerance, the greater the cost.

What would suffer the most is contrast, for a higher bandpass translates to less contrast.

Correct Anthony.
I would prefer a 40mm filter at 0.7A rather than a 50mm at 0.8A.
If one already has a 40mm filter, then I wouldn't see any point upgrading to a 50mm, TBH.
I have a Doublestacked Solarmax 40, and the view at the narrower bandpass is noticable better than then when using a single filter. Someday, I hope to be able to afford a Daystar filter unit for my TEC140 and get both the aperture and a narrow bandpass (~0.4A all going well).

US website now in the process of getting up and running:

luntsolarsystems.com/

8" double-stacked scope!! :shock:
luntsolarsystems.com/ls200t_dp_ha.html

A killer solar scope!!