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Users with smaller detectors shouldn't
experience vignetting at all.
To see how ﬂat the ﬁeld is, I focused
a star near the center of my camera's
ﬁeld by evaluating the star's full width
at half maximum (FWHM) diameter
using Backyard Nikon software. Moving
the star from the center of the frame to
near the edge produced very little difference in the FWHM value, attesting to
the Esprit 150ED's well-corrected ﬁeld.
No focus change due to temperature
variations was evident during my imaging tests. The 3.4-inch focuser had no
problem keeping my camera aligned to
the imaging plane no mater where in
the sky the scope was pointed, and the
focuser's locking mechanism, though
a little awkward to access, held focus
throughout every exposure.

In Conclusion
It's hard to imagine a purchaser being
disappointed with any performance
aspect of the Sky-Watcher Esprit 150ED.
Visual observers will enjoy textbook star
images across a wide ﬁeld, and imagers
will delight in its tight corner-to-corner
star images across large imaging chips.
The weight and length of the scope
will be an important consideration for
mounting the scope. The scope worked
well with my Losmandy G11, but one
should probably consider this the
minimum in mounting options for the
heavy Esprit 150ED, especially if one
adds on a large camera, ﬁlter wheel,
and guidescope.
The scope gave me many memorable
views of deep-sky objects, the Moon,
and planets. Hooking a camera to the
scope with the included ﬁeld ﬂattener
resulted in exciting images of deep-sky
objects with textbook star images across
the entire ﬁeld.
■ Contributing Editor JOHNNY HORNE
still fantasizes about owning a large
apochromatic refractor.
u The Esprit 150ED excels at imaging nebulous
deep-sky objects and handles bright stars well.
This shot of the Pleiades (M45) is a stack of
thirty 5-minute exposures with a Nikon D750
DSLR camera showing bright stars free of
reflections or large, distracting halos.

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t Views of the Moon in the Esprit 150ED are
sharp, with neither a hint of color fringing
visible on the lunar limb, nor any scattered
reflections even when placing the Moon outside of the field of view. This image centered
on Sinus Iridium was recorded with a ZWO
ASI290 high-speed video camera at the
telescope's native f/7 focal ratio.
q This uncalibrated image of M31 - taken
with a full-frame Nikon D750 and a 48-mm
T-adapter - displays minor vignetting in the
extreme corners of the field. Flat-field calibration reduces this to imperceptible levels.

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