Askar Fra 300 pro Vs Fra 400 reduced Vs??

How about the Askar 65PHQ with 0,75x reducer? It is light and in terms of price near the FRA400.
Also you could have a look on the redcat 61.

Thank you for your replies. @Armin Lukas , can't find the advantages of the Sharpstar 65 over the Askar. As far as I know, the glass is a generic ED too, the F-ratio is slower and the focal length with the reducer is almost the same of the FRA 300, but with the latter there's no backfocus due to the petzval design. Maybe I'm missing something. 

The Redcat is definitely an option, I've no experience with the belt focusing but I'm pretty sure it will work fine. My only doubt concerns the mounting plate: I saw many redcat installed on a 3d printed raiser to accomodate the EAF. For me this is a weak point because I'm trying to avoid flexures. 

I also found a Borg fl55. Any of you has experience with it?

I compared the FRA300 to the Redcat 51 a while back: https://youtu.be/5h_2D1cP578?si=Ol3Yo5m6Rs0tg75R&t=547
Very similar in performance IMO. Back then, I'd give the FRA300 the edge because I prefer the traditional focuser, but now the new Redcat V3 has a regular focuser knob so it's a toss-up, and I'd just get whichever focal length your prefer 250 vs. 300mm.

FRA series reduced is great for narrowband, I've been less impressed with broadband capture, too much CA compared to the f/5 scopes above.

My 2 cents, Nico

Aleix Roig:
I'm very happy with the performance of my FRA300. I use it with an ASI2600MM. Star shapes are pretty good.

I also have another setup composed by a FSQ106 EDX4 and FSQ85. 

The FRA300 is a good budget choice with good quality optics. My unit came out really good.

About if it's fast... for me it's fast enough because I have it in my backyard observatory. If I compare it with my new Sharpstar 13028HNT, it's another league... but the stars quality on the newtonian are really worse... nothing compared with the pin point star of the FRA300.

I attatch several results:

https://astrocat.info/the-cocoon-nebula-ic-5146/

https://astrocat.info/the-heart-nebula-sho-ic1805/

https://astrocat.info/a-deep-andromeda-galaxy/

Best wishes,

Aleix Roig

I saw your work from Namibia with the FRA 300.  Just outstanding.

I compared the FRA300 to the Redcat 51 a while back: https://youtu.be/5h_2D1cP578?si=Ol3Yo5m6Rs0tg75R&t=547
Very similar in performance IMO. Back then, I'd give the FRA300 the edge because I prefer the traditional focuser, but now the new Redcat V3 has a regular focuser knob so it's a toss-up, and I'd just get whichever focal length your prefer 250 vs. 300mm.

FRA series reduced is great for narrowband, I've been less impressed with broadband capture, too much CA compared to the f/5 scopes above.

My 2 cents, Nico

Hi Nico, thank you for your answer! Of course I've already seen your video, that introduced me in the FRA world. I would like to thank you for your beautiful channel, which I follow with pleasure. In my case, broadband performances is really important because the setup will be installed in a remote hosting site under bortle 2 sky, from which I would like to shoot all those targets that I have always dreamed of but were impossible from my bortle 6-7 sky. I'm actually considering throwing away my NB filters . More than that, Redcat V3 is impossible to find in Italy and I do not want to buy abroad for obvious warranty reasons. I would like to ask you with which sensors did you test the reduced FRAs. I will use fairly small sensors (1600-294 mm). If you used APSC or full frame sensors, CA could be more pronounced. Am I right?

@Tommi Liinalampi your pictures with the FRA 400 are really amazing. More than that, I actually assume to use the new scope with the 1600mm because sampling looks better, but I also have a 294mm so I could duplicate your setup. I do not seen CA, do you use BXT or other postprocessing techniques to let them disappear? Or in your opinion is due to small sensor area?