What’s new at DayStar?
Upcoming Appearances:
2025 fall star party schedule to be announced.
Northeast Astronomy Forum – April 2026
We will have a booth inside for questions and sale of products, and will demo our products outside, weather permitting.
New Products
Combo Combo accessories released in 2025:
2.8x Barlow for Combo Quark
4.3x Barlow for Combo Quark
Visual focal reducer for Quark
0.6x and 0.33x Reducer/Tilt T adapter for Quark
Tilt adapter for Quark
DayStar in the News
We can neither confirm nor deny reports that there is a red Gemini-shaped solar filter on the International Space Station, that magically appeared there after the Cygnus NG-21 launch, which was some time after astronaut astrophotographers Don Pettit and Matthew Dominick visited us here in Warrensburg…
Daystar was featured on ABC World News Tonight with David Muir:
DayStar was featured on PBS:
Fun at the Masters golf tournament:
News Bulletins
8/15/2013: DayStar upgrades facilities. Receives new Okuma MacTurn-30 CNC Lathe
6/11/2013: DayStar Filter flies in space aboard NASA/ Harvard Smithsonian SAO mission.
2/10/2012: DayStar co owner Fred Bruenjes discovers comet C/2012 C2 (BRUENJES)
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 flies aboard Harvard Smithsonian SAO Hi-C 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
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.