Skywatcher 120mm refractor telescope f 8.3 FL 1000 - Fixed collimation.

[Telescope40]

Hi all. Can someone confirm if this scope, a blue tube model, is a fixed collimation scope or is it collimatable. Is that a word.

Will it match or beat a ED100 on planet watching. Guess aperture versus FPL 53 ???

Thx John

see link

www.iceinspace.com.au/41-281-0-0-1-0.html

[John]

The latest version of this scope seems to have reverted to a non-collimatable lens cell:

Evostar - Skywatcher Evostar 120 (EQ3-2)

The earlier blue tube versions (as pictured in your link) did have that feature though.

As for the 120mm F/8.3 matching or beating an ED100 on the planets, I'm not convinced that it would - the false colour produced by the achromat does rob the image of some contrast and sharpness and remember that the ED100 is an F/9 with an FPL-53 element - the ones I've tried have been pretty much colour free visually.