Skywatcher Integra - any in the wild?

[JimsShed (Jim)]

I saw some retailer references to this new scope from Skywatcher, mostly from Europe.
Has anyone actually seen one for real?
Wondering how it differs from the Esprit range as the price is the same as an Esprit 100

http://www.astronomyalive.com.au/tel...refractor.html

Jim

[Wavytone]

The question is, are you intending to use this for astrophotography, or visual ?

This is optimised for astrophotography and as a quintuplet it means that while it has a large flat field, near the centre a triplet or doublet ED APO with a somewhat longer f-ratio may be desirable. The other aspect is that the focusser will be set up for cameras which may be less than ideal for visual with some eyepieces + star diagonal.

If you're a visual observer you could get a larger scope for that money.

[raymo]

Hi Jim, Judging by the specs given in the ad, just about everything about
it is different from the Esprit. Aperture, f/l, objective[quintuplet], all
different.
Regarding Wavytone's comment, it has a longer f/l than the Esprit.
I imagine that they will turn up here before too long.
raymo

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

For imaging, I'm not sure I'd be as keen on this as the Esprit 100...which is f/5.5, triplet with a doublet flattener

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

For imaging, I'm not sure I'd be as keen on this as the Esprit 100...which is f/5.5, triplet with a doublet flattener

But chances are that in the new telescope CA will be more fully controlled, so it could yield better quality RGB data.

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Anything's possible