JMDean

On 29/07/2017 at 18:31, DRT said:

I have had a Lunt 50 for a couple of years and never had any issues with it. I find the best way to tune it is to put in a relatively low power eyepiece (15mm plossl?) so that the whole disk is in the central sweet spot of the FOV and then tune slowly until you can see prominences around the disk (assuming they are there). Once they start to appear just slowly move the tuner in an out until you find the optimum position where the prominences at their brightest. Assuming it is a clear day, you should now be able to see surface detail that is not too dissimilar to this picture...

I agree with others that it is likely that your tuner is not properly sealed but hopefully the above gives you an expectation of what these scopes can deliver.

Good luck!

I have just bought a Lunt 60 tilt tune, do you see this trough the eyepiece? I only see a fuzzy orange blob. Is this as good as gets visually? I use a baader zoom eyepiece 24-8 and I have tried all lengths. The tuner seems to make no difference visually, I see a bit of difference with my zwo colour planetary imager, but it’s still very underwhelming. I know mono is better, but still I expected to see much more visually.

On 13/03/2019 at 10:20, spillage said:

I would like to say in my experience that the extra cost of the SX kit is well worth it when things go wrong. The customer service they provide is some of the best I have come across. 

Agree wholeheartedly. They also use Grade 1 sensors, most don’t. Plus they don’t use desiccants, they use dry argon. Add in a triple usb hub which greatly reduces cabling, their cameras are exceptionally good. As is their customer service should you ever require it.