I received my new Lunt LS100/BF3400 few weeks ago from Galileo France. Delivery time was 5 weeks as stated when I placed the order!! When I opened the box, I had the surprise to see the nice Lunt red color around the Fabry-Perrot and around the objective cell. I wondered if the new red objective cell was a double stack ;) In fact, unscrewing the heavy duty dust cap, I had a second nice surprise to see a new objective system engraved: "ED doublet FULLY MULTI-COATED D=102mm f=714mm F/7" . Previous models stated 100mm F/8, so it will be esier to get full disk images of the sun!! This new baby is 6.5kg with the dovetail (old one is 5kg).
What striked me at first was that the LS100 displays a deep dark sky surrounding a nice red detailled sun surface with thin protuberances around. Resolution and contast are very high and also a perfect balance between surface details and protuberances!!!! It's impressive how magnification can be pushed, with a focusing that always snaps and more and more details to be observed.


Thanks very much to Lunt and Rikki for providing such nice scopes!!!!!!