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The Sun Today

Solar Information by C. Alex Young, PhD.
Questions? 
Check our 'Technical Notes Knowledge Base'

Articles include information on configuration, mounting, ERF selection, bandpass selection, imaging, seeing conditions and optimizing your viewing experience.

Don't see your question in the Knowledg Base?  
Just ask!

Just another way DayStar is working to help improve your Solar Observing Experience.

Daystar Filters' Photo Forum

Come and see what other imagers are up to.  

Submit your photos in our simple and easy to use format.   Posting has never been so easy.

Users are encouraged to post comments about their equipment used, cameras and seeing conditions.  

Plus, see images posted regularly out of the DayStar Lab.

DayStar Solar Filter flies on NASA Hi-C High Resolution Coronal Imager mission July 11, 2012Daystar Filter flies aboard NASA Hi-C suborbital solar space mission.

White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico July 11, 2012: NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun's corona in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength. Onboard, DayStar provided Hydrogen Alpha views.

New
SolaREDI 80mm
Telescope

Offering eye-popping high resolution
H alpha views

Includes mounting rings, dovetail and white light finder scope and rugged, custom wheeled pelican case.

Research filters supplied by DayStar Filters for the
National Solar Observatory and GONG project online now!  

"The National Solar Observatory is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation."
Live images updated every 10 minutes

Flare M4.7 from AR11476
Captured May 10, 2012 by Fernando Guimaraes
With DayStar ION Filter

News Bulletin:  

5/1/2012:  DayStar releases new 80mm dedicated Solar Telescope, the SolaREDi 80, with new fast eyepiece diagonal.
6/2011:   DayStar's Jen Winter co-author on poster by NSO's Jack Harvey presented at AAS Solar Physics Division 2011 meeting.

5/2011: DayStar Filter to fly in 2012 aboard Harvard Smithsonian SAO misison to space.

5/1/2010:   DayStar releases Solar System Filter Wheel for instantaneous observation in up to 4 wavelengths

4/20/2009: DayStar to produce research filters for National Solar Observatory

4/21/2008:  DayStar announces new SolaREDi alpha scope.

5/1/2007 DayStar announces new Quantum Series Filters

1/28/2007 - DayStar Filters and amateur solar astronomy suffer loss of Vic Winter.

2/2/2006 - DayStar Filters is under new ownership.
ICSTARS owners, Vic & Jen Winter buy DayStar Filters from Del Woods.
Complete press release available here:

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