Whew! this one was quite a lot of work to put together! - If you enjoyed it and you'd like to see more then please leave a like!! :-D Clear skies to you all, and thanks so much for your support!
Cracking review as always Luke, very thorough! All results looked excellent! Nice little scope, nicely put together video mate & super image👍 Clear skies!
Thank you so much Simon!! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video mate, it was fun to put together something like this! :-D As always my friend, thank you for your support 👍👍
My pleasure Tony mate, it's thanks to all the kind folk watching my vids that I can do this kind of thing, so the real thanks goes to you guys! :-D Clear skies!
Your review gave this scope great justice. All my other thoughts have already been written by others on this review, so I'll not repeat them. Just one thing, that focus issue irritated me on one of their other scopes I purchased. Got so fed up trying to focus that within 30mins of setting up I phoned FLO for a return. Shame because apart from that i loved the scope. What I'm saying is, for the price charged for telescopes they should be perfected to spec, before released into the market. Great review Luke. Clear sky's to you.
Hey Mel! :-) hope you're well mate! I'm really glad to hear you liked the review, that's genuinely encouraging 👍 Sorry to hear that there was an issue with the focuser but happy that FLO took care of you mate, that's good! I agree by the way, ideally astro gear should have a very low defect rate given the cost and relatively small volumes of goods - I do suspect it's already pretty good, but can't say for sure!
Hi Luke, Good review. That Starfield Gear 60 appears to be a great clean scope. I was impressed with the sharp stars around the edges. Beautiful SHO of the Heart Nebula.
Thank you Pat, hope you are well my friend!! It's a great scope for sure, I was very impressed overall! :-) I'm hoping to test further soon and get more images! Thank you for your support, as always 🙏
A beautifully put together in depth review Luke! Thank you for all your efforts mate :) The focus mask test was interesting, and something I've not seen before. The only uncertainty I worry about is how truly parfocal the filters are. As you know par focal doesn't always mean parfocal 😅 Anyway, loved the video right down to the pacing and the wording to get your points across. Clear skies!
Thanks a ton Chris mate, I really am chuffed to hear you liked it!! :-D I hear ya RE: the filters too haha! luckily i've tested this set on a 'pure reflector' system before (newt without CC fitted!), and they truly are a parfocal set so thought they were a good test :-D I do like the good old bahtinov mask for testing, such a great tool to have in the arsenal hey! I really appreciate you watching and giving quality commentary as always my friend, thank you :-) Clear skies!
Great review Luke! I said it before and I will say it again, UK astro stores have all the good kit 🙂 Luke you deserve to do this full time as you are really good at it. Always entertaining and educational! Keep up the great work and I will keep watching! Clear Skies mate!
Nice review Luke. Looks to be a nice little fast scope producing some very nice images. It would be good to see one of the 3x3 Aberration Inspector views of the starfield to really get a good look at those stars in the corners close up as it was a bit hard to tell not zoomed in (although i was viewing this on my 17" laptop and not my desktop's much bigger screen). Hope your skies improve so you can get back to those longer projects. Cheers.
Hey Logan!! Hope you're well mate 👍👍 I like the idea of using aberration inspector, that is something I can apply in future situations I think for sure! (For reference, the star shape & size is preserved extremely well to the edges of aps/c - I have no FF cam to test further though) Here's to hoping for clearer skies bud 🙏
Yes that little astrograph looks like a winner. Funny you should say about being well. The whole family is down with Covid so not the most enjoyable time at present.
Great review luke. It does seem these days that the market is becoming loaded with small astrographs, great for us amatures as there is plenty of choice but I do wish sometimes there was a bit more choice of longer FL scopes suitable for imaging the smaller DSO's like galaxies, plantery nebula etc. I never seem to come across reviews for such scopes on U Tube either except for the odd post relating to a Celestron C5/6/8 SCT.
Hey Kevin! :-) I should hopefully be reviewing quite a lot longer F/L scope soon! (2000mm) I'll do my best to make the video as good as I can! Clear skies mate!
Great video Luke, I am very impressed with how good the starts are in the corners, I guess this is probably the same optics as the William optics red cat 61…👍🏻
Hey mate! :-D I was impressed by the coverage too, great optics! - I wouldn't be surprised if the optical spec for the WO RC61 and this are veeeerry similar as you suspect! Clear skies!
Perfect timing, was about to pull the trigger on this as I sold my FRA300 and that was very sharp for a 60mm aperture. could nto find any good info online about these ranges of 60mm quads. Was curious about CA. The FRA300, pixel peeping, had just a bit on smaller stars (with IMX571 color), but good round stars without any aperture vignetting nor any dark beams cracking the bright stars (a la FSQ 85 and the older pre-Askar quads). Glad to see it stacks up. I found the small 60 mm astrograph just a joy to use, small, easy balanced, plug and play. The FRA300 made an 80 mm triplet feel like a burden to carry out and setup by comparison.
Hey mate! Thank you so much for watching and sharing feedback, I'm really happy that you found the video interesting!! 👍👍 The quality of images that you can capture with a good small scope these days is insane, I've been very impressed!
Excellent review as always. Seems like a direct competitor to the Askar 300 pro, and some others. Any thoughts on how it stacks up to similar scopes, like the Askar?
Thank you mate! - I've not had the chance to try out the direct competitors (other than the Redcat 51) so I can't say for sure how it stacks up side-by-side, all I can say is that if the other scopes are as good as this then it's a great time to be in the market for a widefield astrograph haha! :-) Clear skies!
Great review Luke! Definitely looks a cracking widefield telescope especially paired with a large sensor. The one I've got my eye on from FLO is the Stellalyra rc 8 which is 1600 mm of focal length for just £900. I reckon that one would be a great one to review from them if you could get your hands on one of those ? Anyway as ever cracking video Luke 👍
Hey Paul! - I'm actually taking a look at one of their RC10 scopes! the RC8's are great, but I would be aware that collimation on the smaller scopes is a bit of a nightmare, with a ritchey-chretien you need to be able to decouple the focuser from the primary mirror and adjust independently, which you can't do on the smaller ones :-(
Awesome to hear it Douglas!! Congratulations on the scope my friend 👍 I myself would like to fit an EAF to this one too if I'm able to continue the review period, think it'd be a great addition! Thanks for your support!
Fantastic review Luke! I do love a nice widefield refractor, they obviously lack resolution compared to larger instruments, but are much more forgiving when it comes to seeing/tracking etc. I'm always browsing the FLO website (dangerous I know!) but missed this. I'm really tempted to get one to have as a nice portable setup. I have bortle 2 skies less than 90 minutes away but never go there due having to lug 100+lbs of astro gear in the back of the car. Having something like this would make it much less of a chore.
Hey Pete! Totally agree with everything you've said mate, I'm really impressed though by just how good data from a small scope like this can be! :-D I'm giving thought to getting out to darker skies myself sometime mate!
thank you , excellent review , however another telescope like the redcat 51, FRA300 very good result, until the day you work with a full frame camera and all the defects come to light from the shadows
Thanks for sharing Brian! - I do wish I had a full-frame camera sometimes, so I could more completely test telescopes in this fashion! :-) I feel like it's performance over aps/c was tremendous though so it'd have to suffer a really sudden & strong degradation to be unusable on FF! Clear skies mate!
Hay Luke. I like all of your videos and advice I've been out of astronomy for years because of a accident i had which put me in a wheelchair and being told i would NEVER walk again with 2 years in bed so i got rid of all of my equipment thinking there is no point yet 20 years later i can use a walking stick now to get around my house and garden a bit after hard work and stubbornness i recently got a seestar (i have got all of the parts you made from you) only because of the size and to get back into astrophotography not like the good old days of lumping tonnes of equipment everywhere. I want to thank you for giving me my passion back showing me that i can still be able to do astrophotography with out loads of heavy equipment that i can be able to use. Now i want to upgrade any advice would be greatly appreciated Thanks Sean
Hey Sean! I just wanted to take a moment to say a huge thank you for all the support mate, and I'm so glad you've enjoyed my videos! I'm completely over the moon that you're up and about after being given such a rough outlook by the doctors, that really is phenomenal - I take my hat off to you mate 🙏 Honestly made my day to read this, thanks again for sharing, Sean. All the very best, Luke
I thought to reply separately to your request for advice on upgrades from the Seestar - I'd be tempted with, budget permitting, a ZWO am5 as your mount to work from, as it's got a lot of payload capacity and getting started with a reasonably short f/l apo scope - I'd control everything with asiair for ease of setup to save you carting laptops outside etc too. As to cameras, it really depends on what you want to do! :-) mono or osc, and budget 👍 Cheers!
Thanks, Luke - another great video. Have you inspected the images using ASTAP tilt analysis, would be interested to see what the results you get for this scope.
That's a great idea mate! - I just had a look at a few subs and there's barely anything visible, bouncing around between 4-7% between different subs so probably measurement noise, - cheers! :-)
Ah mate that's awesome!! :-D My fiance is into astrophotography too, it's great being able to share the night skies with your partner like that! Clear skies and best of luck to you mate!
Hey mate! - I agree with you, I think it's aimed at that kind of competition for sure :-) Congratulations on the RC61 by the way, superb scopes from everything I've seen!
Hi Luke, don't know if you still read comments on older videos but you say in this that the light drop-off across the frame is ~ 3%. Was wondering what tool you used to measure this as would like to use it to assess one of my OTAs, thank you 👍
Hey there mate! If I recall correctly this can be done in ASTAP image inspector, but I probably made my measurements for the video during capture while using Nina and reading out the mean values at center Vs corners 👍
@@lukomatico Found it I think in ASTAP under Tools > Image Inspection > Background Values Hope it's that anyway as the other options went Whooosh over my head 🙄
A lot of these scopes do look quite similar for sure, like the Askar fra and the ZWO apo etc - I think this is the only one with a built-in tip/tilt system though which is something unique! 😀
@@lukomatico Yes, some European and US vendors/companies try to improve these scopes. Some of them run serious quality control. For example, Stellarvue. I should admit that I have had really bad luck in buying astro equipment. Returns and sales are approaching 80! Only three companies were 100% as promised. They are Moonlite motorized focusers (every my scope has it!); Tak Epsilon 130D and pick of all 10um mount (absolutely wonder machine). Worse are IOptron and ZWO: one piece worse than another.
I know you said you were taking the RASA off but I think the EQ8 might be slightly over mounted for this mate lol, in all seriousness it looks like a nice bit of kit for widefield & the price doesn't seem to bad either for a quad so no messing around with spacing & flatteners either which is a bonus. I also like the fact it doesn't have the helical focuser like the redcat does so fitting an auto focuser should be a lot more simpler to. If ever I were in the market for a widefield setup this is definitely one I'd seriously consider.
Hey mate!! Ah the eq8 would definitely be a little bit overkill hey 😂😂 Can't wait to show you why I took the RASA off btw! 🙏 Hope you and Nicky are well buddy
@@lukomatico I'm intrigued to see what you have as it's replacement. Yeah we're both good thanks getting ready for Kelling next week hope you're all well to?
Hey mate! :-D if the at60ed is more in line with what you want to spend then go for it i'd say! It'll be a great scope 👍 (I'd choose this scope myself as I feel it's well worth the pricetag, but to each his own hey mate!)
Hey Ana! - I'd just attach an EAF, the focuser has bolt holes ready for the mounting plate :-) I wish I'd still got one spare so I could have tested that further! Clear skies!
So... there'll be an open box offer on this at FLO in the next few days 😉 🥷 Great review, and innovative take on aberration measurement 👍 Hope FLO send you an ASKAR 65 PHQ **for me to buy later**, um, I mean for you to review 😁
Hey mate! Thanks ever so much, I'm glad you liked the review! :-D I'm afraid I've still got the scope for further imaging, so no open box offers incoming yet hahah 😂👍 Seriously though, it's been amazing to get my hands on some nice new gear and put it through it's paces! Clear skies to you my friend :-)
Whew! this one was quite a lot of work to put together! - If you enjoyed it and you'd like to see more then please leave a like!! :-D Clear skies to you all, and thanks so much for your support!
Really beneficial. This scope is on my short list of wide FOV refractors. Appreciate your testing, review and assessment!
Thank you so much!! I'm really glad you enjoyed it 👍👍
Another thorough review, Luke. Excellent!
Glad you liked it Michael! Thanks so much mate 👍👍
Cracking review as always Luke, very thorough! All results looked excellent! Nice little scope, nicely put together video mate & super image👍 Clear skies!
Thank you so much Simon!! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video mate, it was fun to put together something like this! :-D
As always my friend, thank you for your support 👍👍
Looks like a great little telescope Luke. thanks for taking the time to do these reviews mate.
My pleasure Tony mate, it's thanks to all the kind folk watching my vids that I can do this kind of thing, so the real thanks goes to you guys! :-D Clear skies!
Outstanding images
I hope my 62mm apo F/6.45 doublet
Perfect colour correction does as well🎉
Thank you so much for the lovely message mate! :-) Clear skies!
Excellent review, Luke. Great pics.
Thanks a ton mate! - Really happy you liked it :-) Clear skies!
Your review gave this scope great justice. All my other thoughts have already been written by others on this review, so I'll not repeat them. Just one thing, that focus issue irritated me on one of their other scopes I purchased. Got so fed up trying to focus that within 30mins of setting up I phoned FLO for a return. Shame because apart from that i loved the scope.
What I'm saying is, for the price charged for telescopes they should be perfected to spec, before released into the market.
Great review Luke. Clear sky's to you.
Hey Mel! :-) hope you're well mate!
I'm really glad to hear you liked the review, that's genuinely encouraging 👍
Sorry to hear that there was an issue with the focuser but happy that FLO took care of you mate, that's good!
I agree by the way, ideally astro gear should have a very low defect rate given the cost and relatively small volumes of goods - I do suspect it's already pretty good, but can't say for sure!
Hi Luke,
Good review. That Starfield Gear 60 appears to be a great clean scope. I was impressed with the sharp stars around the edges. Beautiful SHO of the Heart Nebula.
Thank you Pat, hope you are well my friend!! It's a great scope for sure, I was very impressed overall! :-) I'm hoping to test further soon and get more images!
Thank you for your support, as always 🙏
A beautifully put together in depth review Luke! Thank you for all your efforts mate :) The focus mask test was interesting, and something I've not seen before. The only uncertainty I worry about is how truly parfocal the filters are. As you know par focal doesn't always mean parfocal 😅 Anyway, loved the video right down to the pacing and the wording to get your points across. Clear skies!
Thanks a ton Chris mate, I really am chuffed to hear you liked it!! :-D I hear ya RE: the filters too haha! luckily i've tested this set on a 'pure reflector' system before (newt without CC fitted!), and they truly are a parfocal set so thought they were a good test :-D
I do like the good old bahtinov mask for testing, such a great tool to have in the arsenal hey!
I really appreciate you watching and giving quality commentary as always my friend, thank you :-)
Clear skies!
Looks like an awesome scope. I would have liked to have seen it mounted on your eq8 though 🤣
That heart nebula looks fantastic, love the colors. CS!
Thank you James mate!! :-D On the eq8 it would have looked mad for sure haha!!
Clear skies bud! :-)
Great review Luke! I said it before and I will say it again, UK astro stores have all the good kit 🙂 Luke you deserve to do this full time as you are really good at it. Always entertaining and educational! Keep up the great work and I will keep watching! Clear Skies mate!
Ah Dave mate you're too kind, thank you! :-) Hope you enjoy the new videos to come, as long as we get some clear skies again this year that is LOL!
If you are fitting EAF, there are two grub screws holding the focuser knob on, not just one!
Good to know that Douglas!!! that's really helpful mate, thank you :-)
Thanks Luke for your efforts!
My pleasure! Thanks so much for your support 🙏
Looks like a great travel scope. Are you able to get over the the 2024 April Solar eclipse. This scope would be great for the trip.
Hey Mike! - I would love to mate, we'll have to see what the future holds I guess!!
Clear skies to you my friend :-)
Nice review Luke. Looks to be a nice little fast scope producing some very nice images. It would be good to see one of the 3x3 Aberration Inspector views of the starfield to really get a good look at those stars in the corners close up as it was a bit hard to tell not zoomed in (although i was viewing this on my 17" laptop and not my desktop's much bigger screen). Hope your skies improve so you can get back to those longer projects. Cheers.
Hey Logan!! Hope you're well mate 👍👍
I like the idea of using aberration inspector, that is something I can apply in future situations I think for sure! (For reference, the star shape & size is preserved extremely well to the edges of aps/c - I have no FF cam to test further though)
Here's to hoping for clearer skies bud 🙏
Yes that little astrograph looks like a winner.
Funny you should say about being well. The whole family is down with Covid so not the most enjoyable time at present.
@@LogansAstro Oh no mate, I'm sorry to hear it!! Sending you all well wishes seriously!! 🙏
It's seemingly taking off again in the UK too :-(
hey youtube algorithm that was not the starfield i was looking for bro (nothing against the video
You're a good dude, thanks mate!! :-D
Great review luke. It does seem these days that the market is becoming loaded with small astrographs, great for us amatures as there is plenty of choice but I do wish sometimes there was a bit more choice of longer FL scopes suitable for imaging the smaller DSO's like galaxies, plantery nebula etc. I never seem to come across reviews for such scopes on U Tube either except for the odd post relating to a Celestron C5/6/8 SCT.
Hey Kevin! :-) I should hopefully be reviewing quite a lot longer F/L scope soon! (2000mm) I'll do my best to make the video as good as I can!
Clear skies mate!
Great video Luke, I am very impressed with how good the starts are in the corners, I guess this is probably the same optics as the William optics red cat 61…👍🏻
Hey mate! :-D I was impressed by the coverage too, great optics! - I wouldn't be surprised if the optical spec for the WO RC61 and this are veeeerry similar as you suspect!
Clear skies!
Perfect timing, was about to pull the trigger on this as I sold my FRA300 and that was very sharp for a 60mm aperture. could nto find any good info online about these ranges of 60mm quads. Was curious about CA. The FRA300, pixel peeping, had just a bit on smaller stars (with IMX571 color), but good round stars without any aperture vignetting nor any dark beams cracking the bright stars (a la FSQ 85 and the older pre-Askar quads). Glad to see it stacks up. I found the small 60 mm astrograph just a joy to use, small, easy balanced, plug and play. The FRA300 made an 80 mm triplet feel like a burden to carry out and setup by comparison.
Hey mate! Thank you so much for watching and sharing feedback, I'm really happy that you found the video interesting!! 👍👍
The quality of images that you can capture with a good small scope these days is insane, I've been very impressed!
Excellent review as always. Seems like a direct competitor to the Askar 300 pro, and some others. Any thoughts on how it stacks up to similar scopes, like the Askar?
Thank you mate! - I've not had the chance to try out the direct competitors (other than the Redcat 51) so I can't say for sure how it stacks up side-by-side, all I can say is that if the other scopes are as good as this then it's a great time to be in the market for a widefield astrograph haha! :-)
Clear skies!
Great review Luke! Definitely looks a cracking widefield telescope especially paired with a large sensor. The one I've got my eye on from FLO is the Stellalyra rc 8 which is 1600 mm of focal length for just £900. I reckon that one would be a great one to review from them if you could get your hands on one of those ? Anyway as ever cracking video Luke 👍
Hey Paul! - I'm actually taking a look at one of their RC10 scopes! the RC8's are great, but I would be aware that collimation on the smaller scopes is a bit of a nightmare, with a ritchey-chretien you need to be able to decouple the focuser from the primary mirror and adjust independently, which you can't do on the smaller ones :-(
I have one of these, from FLO. Set up with 2600MC and as with all fast optics it is very sensitive to focus. Have now installed EAF to help with this.
Awesome to hear it Douglas!! Congratulations on the scope my friend 👍
I myself would like to fit an EAF to this one too if I'm able to continue the review period, think it'd be a great addition!
Thanks for your support!
Fantastic review Luke! I do love a nice widefield refractor, they obviously lack resolution compared to larger instruments, but are much more forgiving when it comes to seeing/tracking etc. I'm always browsing the FLO website (dangerous I know!) but missed this. I'm really tempted to get one to have as a nice portable setup. I have bortle 2 skies less than 90 minutes away but never go there due having to lug 100+lbs of astro gear in the back of the car. Having something like this would make it much less of a chore.
Hey Pete! Totally agree with everything you've said mate, I'm really impressed though by just how good data from a small scope like this can be! :-D
I'm giving thought to getting out to darker skies myself sometime mate!
Quite an image, from modest integration time, & a bery nice scope!
Thanks ever so much mate! I was really pleased with the performance! 👍👍
Hope you've been well!
thank you , excellent review , however another telescope like the redcat 51, FRA300 very good result, until the day you work with a full frame camera and all the defects come to light from the shadows
Thanks for sharing Brian! - I do wish I had a full-frame camera sometimes, so I could more completely test telescopes in this fashion! :-) I feel like it's performance over aps/c was tremendous though so it'd have to suffer a really sudden & strong degradation to be unusable on FF!
Clear skies mate!
Hay Luke. I like all of your videos and advice I've been out of astronomy for years because of a accident i had which put me in a wheelchair and being told i would NEVER walk again with 2 years in bed so i got rid of all of my equipment thinking there is no point yet 20 years later i can use a walking stick now to get around my house and garden a bit after hard work and stubbornness i recently got a seestar (i have got all of the parts you made from you) only because of the size and to get back into astrophotography not like the good old days of lumping tonnes of equipment everywhere. I want to thank you for giving me my passion back showing me that i can still be able to do astrophotography with out loads of heavy equipment that i can be able to use. Now i want to upgrade any advice would be greatly appreciated
Thanks Sean
Hey Sean!
I just wanted to take a moment to say a huge thank you for all the support mate, and I'm so glad you've enjoyed my videos!
I'm completely over the moon that you're up and about after being given such a rough outlook by the doctors, that really is phenomenal - I take my hat off to you mate 🙏
Honestly made my day to read this, thanks again for sharing, Sean.
All the very best,
Luke
I thought to reply separately to your request for advice on upgrades from the Seestar - I'd be tempted with, budget permitting, a ZWO am5 as your mount to work from, as it's got a lot of payload capacity and getting started with a reasonably short f/l apo scope - I'd control everything with asiair for ease of setup to save you carting laptops outside etc too.
As to cameras, it really depends on what you want to do! :-) mono or osc, and budget 👍
Cheers!
Thanks, Luke - another great video. Have you inspected the images using ASTAP tilt analysis, would be interested to see what the results you get for this scope.
That's a great idea mate! - I just had a look at a few subs and there's barely anything visible, bouncing around between 4-7% between different subs so probably measurement noise, - cheers! :-)
@@lukomatico Thanks for doing that, Luke. Compared to my setups, 4-7% is pretty good
that’s a wonderful looking scope! great review too, i’ve gotten my girlfriend into astro now and this may be a scope to consider :)
Ah mate that's awesome!! :-D My fiance is into astrophotography too, it's great being able to share the night skies with your partner like that!
Clear skies and best of luck to you mate!
This looks like a direct competitor with the Williams Optics Redcat 61, which I own and really like.
Hey mate! - I agree with you, I think it's aimed at that kind of competition for sure :-) Congratulations on the RC61 by the way, superb scopes from everything I've seen!
looks a nice scope... top review Luke.. still love my FRA300
Thank you mate!! The FRA300 is a great scope from everything I hear! :-D clear skies!
Hi Luke, don't know if you still read comments on older videos but you say in this that the light drop-off across the frame is ~ 3%. Was wondering what tool you used to measure this as would like to use it to assess one of my OTAs, thank you 👍
Hey there mate!
If I recall correctly this can be done in ASTAP image inspector, but I probably made my measurements for the video during capture while using Nina and reading out the mean values at center Vs corners 👍
@@lukomatico Found it I think in ASTAP under Tools > Image Inspection > Background Values
Hope it's that anyway as the other options went Whooosh over my head 🙄
Hi Luke looks great 1 question does it take a ZWO EAF with out an issue
Indeed it does mate! :-) I'm going to fit one to it myself I think :-D
By the way, it looks increasingly as Astro-Tech 60mm f5 astrograph. Oh! Askar has the same. They are probably stamped somewhere in Canton.
A lot of these scopes do look quite similar for sure, like the Askar fra and the ZWO apo etc - I think this is the only one with a built-in tip/tilt system though which is something unique! 😀
@@lukomatico Yes, some European and US vendors/companies try to improve these scopes. Some of them run serious quality control. For example, Stellarvue.
I should admit that I have had really bad luck in buying astro equipment. Returns and sales are approaching 80!
Only three companies were 100% as promised. They are Moonlite motorized focusers (every my scope has it!); Tak Epsilon 130D and pick of all 10um mount (absolutely wonder machine). Worse are IOptron and ZWO: one piece worse than another.
I know you said you were taking the RASA off but I think the EQ8 might be slightly over mounted for this mate lol, in all seriousness it looks like a nice bit of kit for widefield & the price doesn't seem to bad either for a quad so no messing around with spacing & flatteners either which is a bonus. I also like the fact it doesn't have the helical focuser like the redcat does so fitting an auto focuser should be a lot more simpler to. If ever I were in the market for a widefield setup this is definitely one I'd seriously consider.
Hey mate!! Ah the eq8 would definitely be a little bit overkill hey 😂😂
Can't wait to show you why I took the RASA off btw! 🙏
Hope you and Nicky are well buddy
@@lukomatico I'm intrigued to see what you have as it's replacement. Yeah we're both good thanks getting ready for Kelling next week hope you're all well to?
All is well mate! - as to what's next, it's a truss ritchey chretien! ;-D
crikey mate you don't do things by halves lol
Additionally, this telescope is a perfect match for an AM3
Thank you for watching Douglas! - I think you're totally right by the way, I expect the am3 and this would be a superb match! :-)
Clear skies!
I don't know about this. The AT60ED is wayyy less and I honestly can't see this scope performing that much better for a whole lot more money.
Hey mate! :-D if the at60ed is more in line with what you want to spend then go for it i'd say! It'll be a great scope 👍
(I'd choose this scope myself as I feel it's well worth the pricetag, but to each his own hey mate!)
I have the Askar 300 pro and I would say it's directly comparable and similar.
Absolutely agree mate, it would seem to be a very comparable scope! :-) Clear skies!
Looks nice.
Thanks for watching mate! :-) it's a nice scope for sure!!
How will you reliably motorize focuser on this scope?
Hey Ana! - I'd just attach an EAF, the focuser has bolt holes ready for the mounting plate :-) I wish I'd still got one spare so I could have tested that further!
Clear skies!
@@lukomatico Thanks for this. I really want wide field system. Such system is missing from my collection.
Waiting for that Bethesda lawsuit 😂
Hahaha!!! 😂😂
So... there'll be an open box offer on this at FLO in the next few days 😉 🥷
Great review, and innovative take on aberration measurement 👍
Hope FLO send you an ASKAR 65 PHQ **for me to buy later**, um, I mean for you to review 😁
Hey mate! Thanks ever so much, I'm glad you liked the review! :-D
I'm afraid I've still got the scope for further imaging, so no open box offers incoming yet hahah 😂👍
Seriously though, it's been amazing to get my hands on some nice new gear and put it through it's paces!
Clear skies to you my friend :-)
Oh well I tried 😄
Have no right to ask but if you could share a FITS file taken with a OSC with this scope at some point that would be awesome 👍