First of all I hope everyone's had a good Christmas and New Year!
I'm just after some opinions/experiences with Explore Scientific (made by North Group as far as I can find) vs Long Perng 127mm/126mm Triplet Apos (or any of their refractors for that matter). The particular models I'm looking at can be found following these links, both for around the $3000 mark.
http://astroshop.com.au/products/det...sp?id=MAS-048B
http://www.andrewscom.com.au/site-section-10.htm
I've heard some reports of bloated stars among other things, but being triplet apos I'm a bit doubtful of how exaggerated any problems really are and whether they are common problems or problems with older models. There doesn't seem to be a huge amount of info out there.
Anyway, what's your thoughts?
