What is this?

[Robindonne]

[Robindonne]

Oh its real?

http://www.astroversand.com/Skywatcher1-p157h60s61-Sky-Watcher-Schmidt-.htm

[Paz]

At first I thought it was a Celestron with funny stickers on it , I hadn't realised Sky Watcher did sct's.

[johninderby]

And Celestron does the 180 mak.

 

Edited January 17, 2021 by johninderby

[John]

I guess it's 150mm SCT which Synta have made with the Skywatcher branding on it rather than the Celestron branding. Synta make the SCT's below 11 inches (maybe 14 ?) now as they own Celestron.

Whether this means that we will see Skywatcher branded SCT's at some point, who knows ?

For a while in the USA you could get Orion (USA) branded SCT's. This is an Orion branded C11:

The above OTA is from the era when the C11 was still made in the USA I think.

 

 

[Robindonne]

Found an advertisement where they were sold in 2011 as skywatcher sct’s. I guess it didnt work

http://www.teleskop-spezialisten.de/SC_6_Schmidt_Cassegrain_SkyWatcher.html

Edited January 17, 2021 by Robindonne

[John]

16 minutes ago, Robindonne said:

Found an advertisement where they were sold in 2011 as skywatcher sct’s. I guess it didnt work

http://www.teleskop-spezialisten.de/SC_6_Schmidt_Cassegrain_SkyWatcher.html

Interesting that the internal secondary holder still shows the Celestron Branding in the plastic moulding. Too much trouble to change that I guess, for a marketing experiment.