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Originally Posted by wasyoungonce
I'm leaning this way....I suspect the Chinese still have a way to go with QA and ES does rejects some OTAs. I don't know I have heard this before but it's speculation.
However, one thing ...you will not be told by the OEM and no one in a position that knows is saying! So if your not sure...buy the ES127 you cannot go wrong for the price.
Maybe Astro Optical should re-start selling the Prostar units with tricked out ML focuser etc? I reckon they'd gets sales these days and indeed..or better yet the new 150mm ED's...Hmmmm.
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The Prostar version will no longer be available, according to my conversation on the phone with Steve (MyAstroShop). I was also told that it was no longer possible to get those "Special Lenses" that he was getting for the "Prostar" (the special and more expensive ($3000) version of the ED127). There was also a mention of the Japanese maker (at the Chinese factory) having gone back to Japan, and that was the main reason for the "Special Lens" no longer being available. So, maybe this "Special Lens" was mainly the result of the more work, and expertise that went into making those lenses, by that Japanese lens maker, rather than just the sort of glass that was being used. That special lens was also probably the lens that may have been on all of the very early ED127 versions. So, all this seems to support our "guess", that at the present time, there is probably only one lens, for both ED127, and the Explore Scientific ED127.