Update on Daystar FiltersPosted By Kostas Pervolarakis |
For all those anxiously awaiting news, here you go:
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate Release February 10, 2006
DayStar Filters LLC
149 Northwest OO Highway
Warrensburg, MO 64093
660-747-2100
www.DayStarFilters.com
ICSTARS buys DayStar Filters
ICSTARS of Missouri announced today the asset purchase of DayStar
Filters of California, USA.
ICSTARS owners, Vic & Jen Winter, are prominent figures in many areas
of amateur astronomy. They are owners of Astronomical Tours, a
company specializing in travel specifically for astronomers, as well
as former editors of the national amateur astronomy newsletter, The
Reflector. The two direct the Southern Skies Star Party in Bolivia
and are founders of the Not-for-Profit StarGarden Foundation. Vic
Winter is a JPL NASA Solar System Ambassador and prestigious first
awardee of the Astronomical League's Solar Observer Certificate
number one, and was the only holder of that award for 10 years. Vic
has been observing and photographing the sun in high-resolution
hydrogen alpha for decades and has compiled years of extensive
filtergram studies.
DayStar owner, Del Woods first began manufacturing narrow-bandpass
hydrogen-alpha solar filters over 37 years ago. Those precision
filters have been used in amateur, university and flown space
applications around the world at hydrogen-alpha and calcium K-line
wavelengths. Though it was once the foremost solar filter
manufacturer in the world, DayStar's production had all but ended in
recent years because of health concerns of owner Del Woods.
Under new management and armed with the support and expertise of Mr.
Woods, ICSTARS will breath life back into the DayStar filter line.
With some additional modernizations and applications, the new DayStar
will continue to support existing owners and introduce intermediate
and advanced astronomers to the benefits of large aperture, tuned sub-
angstrom solar observing.
The DayStar facility is being relocated to the ICSTARS Ranch in
Missouri, where first priority for management will be to service
needs of existing DayStar clients. A small number of new filters
will be produced for demonstration and fulfillment of back-orders in
March of 2006. New filter orders would be ready for delivery as
early as May - 2006.
DayStar hydrogen-alpha and Calcium K-line filters are rear-mounted
etalon-based filtration systems, which allows for maximum resolution
and detail with telescopes of any aperture, limited only by the
optical quality of the telescope and Dawes's limit, the empirical
resolution limit set by atmospheric seeing.
Once filters are in production, DayStar will present updates to the
line, allowing more convenient applications and precision filter
operation for a broad range of solar observers.
The new DayStarFilters.com website is currently under construction.
Please watch for updates.
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate Release February 10, 2006
DayStar Filters LLC
149 Northwest OO Highway
Warrensburg, MO 64093
660-747-2100
www.DayStarFilters.com
ICSTARS buys DayStar Filters
ICSTARS of Missouri announced today the asset purchase of DayStar
Filters of California, USA.
ICSTARS owners, Vic & Jen Winter, are prominent figures in many areas
of amateur astronomy. They are owners of Astronomical Tours, a
company specializing in travel specifically for astronomers, as well
as former editors of the national amateur astronomy newsletter, The
Reflector. The two direct the Southern Skies Star Party in Bolivia
and are founders of the Not-for-Profit StarGarden Foundation. Vic
Winter is a JPL NASA Solar System Ambassador and prestigious first
awardee of the Astronomical League's Solar Observer Certificate
number one, and was the only holder of that award for 10 years. Vic
has been observing and photographing the sun in high-resolution
hydrogen alpha for decades and has compiled years of extensive
filtergram studies.
DayStar owner, Del Woods first began manufacturing narrow-bandpass
hydrogen-alpha solar filters over 37 years ago. Those precision
filters have been used in amateur, university and flown space
applications around the world at hydrogen-alpha and calcium K-line
wavelengths. Though it was once the foremost solar filter
manufacturer in the world, DayStar's production had all but ended in
recent years because of health concerns of owner Del Woods.
Under new management and armed with the support and expertise of Mr.
Woods, ICSTARS will breath life back into the DayStar filter line.
With some additional modernizations and applications, the new DayStar
will continue to support existing owners and introduce intermediate
and advanced astronomers to the benefits of large aperture, tuned sub-
angstrom solar observing.
The DayStar facility is being relocated to the ICSTARS Ranch in
Missouri, where first priority for management will be to service
needs of existing DayStar clients. A small number of new filters
will be produced for demonstration and fulfillment of back-orders in
March of 2006. New filter orders would be ready for delivery as
early as May - 2006.
DayStar hydrogen-alpha and Calcium K-line filters are rear-mounted
etalon-based filtration systems, which allows for maximum resolution
and detail with telescopes of any aperture, limited only by the
optical quality of the telescope and Dawes's limit, the empirical
resolution limit set by atmospheric seeing.
Once filters are in production, DayStar will present updates to the
line, allowing more convenient applications and precision filter
operation for a broad range of solar observers.
The new DayStarFilters.com website is currently under construction.
Please watch for updates.
