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Founded in 2008, Explore Scientific (ES) has been a foundry of Jinghua and is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jinghua, headquartered in the United States, with operations including design, sales, distribution and some light industrial production. Although it is manufactured by Jinghua like Bresser, the ES is clearly positioned higher than Bresser, with high-end APO (Apochromat Lenses) and the Truss Tube Dobsonian series also won the title of Sky and Telescope's Hot Product in 2016.
 
ES's Dobson telescope has been highly praised abroad, because the combination of low center of gravity and large aperture Newtonian optical components makes it possible for enthusiasts to conduct more professional starry sky observation, ES's Dobson telescope is small in weight, easy to disassemble, and easy to transport, but even with such a simple structure, it can still complete smooth and subtle adjustments, and the light collected by the large aperture is 1500 times that of the naked eye, even inexperienced people can observe the details of planets and deep space, and the operation is very simple, and one person can complete it. The price of the ES 10-inch Dobson is about 4,200 yuan, the 12-inch is about 5,500 yuan, and the 16-inch is more than 10,000 yuan.
 
In addition to Dobson, ES's APO is also highly recommended, APO (Apochromatic) refers to the ability to eliminate chromatic aberration for more than two color light, and the achromatic lens (Achromatic) can only achromatize two color light. ES's APO uses Japan's HOYA's ED lens and proprietary EMD enhanced multi-layer coating, so as to achieve a "almost zero chromatic aberration" and extremely high contrast image quality, the advantage of deep space observation is very obvious, to achieve the same effect of the cow reaction, the weight is much heavier than APO, not to mention that ES's APO has a carbon fiber lens barrel series, the weight is greatly reduced, and at the same time has portability, which is very recommended. ES's 127mm APO is traded for less than 10,000 yuan, and the price of a carbon cartridge of the same caliber is around 14,000 yuan, while the price of a 152mm caliber is about 37,000 yuan.