Internal Sets in The Ultrapower Construction
Relative to the ultrapower construction of the hyperreal numbers as equivalence classes of sequences, an internal subset of *R is one defined by a sequence of real sets, where a hyperreal is said to belong to the set if and only if the set of indices n such that, is a member of the ultrafilter used in the construction of *R.
More generally, an internal entity is a member of the natural extension of a real entity. Thus, every element of *R is internal; a subset of *R is internal if and only if it is a member of the natural extension of the power set of R; etc.
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