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Lunt 100 mm Modular H-Alpha Solar Telescope - Starter Package

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SKU: LUN-LS100MT-STARTER
$6,899.00
 

Lunt LS100MT 100 mm H-Alpha Solar Telescope

This Lunt Starter Package for the LS100MT f/7 H-Alpha Solar Refractor comes with a B1200 Blocking Filter, ideal for visual purposes, and contains everything you need to begin viewing both the Sun and celestial objects in the night sky right out of the box. Other accessories included in this package are a 1.25” diagonal, 1.25”, 27 mm eyepiece, 2” to 1.25” adapter, backing plate & focuser assembly, mounting ring assembly with red dot handle, a hard case and 8” Vixen-style dovetail.


Capable of operating both during daylight hours as well as at night, this Lunt LS100MT H-Alpha Solar Telescope with professional grade optics, part of Lunt's new Modular Telescope line, provides users with a full spectrum of astronomical viewing opportunities. No matter the configuration being employed, the LS100MT is large enough to elicit excitement from users. Conveniently transportable, this solar refractor will allow you to experience what our nearest star has to offer in terms of active regions, prominences, filaments, and surface granulation, while delivering the same high quality performance you’ve come to expect from Lunt Solar Systems. Furthermore, as with all Lunt Modular Telescopes, the LS100MT comes standard with Lunt’s doppler true tuning system to enable extremely fine tuning adjustments for the best possible views.

Observers who wish to keep viewing the sky after the Sun sets only need to remove the Hydrogren Alpha module before they can begin exploring the enormity of the cosmos. Let this refractor's triplet ED apochromatic lens with FPL53 glass take you on a journey across the Milky Way galaxy by combining the diagonal included in this LS100MT Starter package with the eyepiece of your choice. With the use of separately available filters, the LS100MT can be made suitable for White Light and Calcium K viewing. Given all its possible uses and configurations, it’s hard to imagine the LS100MT spending much time in storage.

An exceptionally versatile instrument, the Lunt LS100MT can easily transition between Hydrogen-Alpha, Night Sky, Terrestrial, White Light, and Calcium K viewing. This makes it highly unlikely to ever drop out of your telescope rotation. In its base single stack configuration, the LS100MT will provide you with an extraordinary Hydrogen Alpha solar observing experience by allowing for a <.65 angstrom bandpass. An optional double stack module is also available for a <.45 angstrom bandpass that will allow the Sun's features to virtually leap off its surface as if in 3D.

True Doppler Tuning

True Doppler Tuning primarily allows for a shift into and away from the user, adding a 3-D like component to the viewing experience. Although the effect this has on prominences is minimal due to their location at the edge of the disk, it does have an impact on filaments and similarly active regions on the surface. Additionally, while looking at a filament at the center of the Sun, the user has the ability to Doppler shift from the base of the filament to the tip, thus following the filament through its structure toward you and away from you. This enhanced visual and imaging capability benefits the observer while providing a useful research tool for the avid hobbyist. Lastly, the LS100MT’s pressure tuning system allows for more precise tuning of desired features by an order of magnitude.

Optional Internal Double Stacking Module

While the Lunt LS100MT comes standard as a single-stacked system with a <0.65 Angstrom bandpass, you can have this reduced to <0.45 Angstroms with the help of an internal double stack module (not included see recommended accessories). This enables high definition solar views with truly enhanced surface details that seem as if they are "popping out" at you. Internal double stacking can be done either simultaneously with your LS100MT purchase or at any subsequent time. This does not require that the LS100MT be returned to the factory. In fact, purchasing the single-stacked version provides a more affordable way to obtain Lunt’s best solar scope while still leaving room for upgrades at a later date. However, if you do decide on the LFPT internal double stack module upgrade, you’ll be able to experience our closest star in finer detail than ever before.

Lunt LS100MT H-Alpha Solar Telescope Specifications

  • Optical Aperture: 100 mm
  • Etalon: Internal <0.65 Angstrom
  • Tuning: Internal Pressure Tuned (Doppler True Tuning)
  • Focal Length: 714 mm
  • Focal Ratio: f/7
  • Blocking Filter: B1200
  • Focuser: 2" Rack & Pinion Focuser
  • Mounting Rings with Handle and Vixen-style Dovetail
  • Storage: Aluminum hard case with fitted foam
  • Weight: 12.7 lbs.