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The Zhumell 6" is manufactured by Chongqing-Deron, represented by Sunny Chen ref ref. shhh!Īside from Celestron/Skywatcher, Meade and Antares (TS Teleskope in Germany apparently sells the same scopes?) the only other 6" achro available from Asia is the Zhumell 6" f/8. Where the lenses themselves are coming from (aside from "the same place as before in China") they won't say. So although the origin of the Anatres branded scopes is not clear, this "which Jinghua- or not" question is apparently moot as Sky Instruments (importing company of the Antares brand) informs me that they gave up on importing the pre-assembled scopes from wherever they came from (citing mechanical QC issues) and instead are now importing only the lenses (from the same source however) and are now manufacturing the rest of the OTA themselves in-house in Vancouver, BC. could this be an acronym for " Jinghua Optical Companies" perhaps? ref-translate with google) Could it be that the Jinghua Group consolidated with JOC Group which owns Kunming House4 Optical and the Maxvision brand? Jinghua had/has facilities in both Guangzhou and Kunming-so did the Jinghua Group. OTOH, according to one reference on the "Grazing Husband" Chinese astro board, Kunming House4 Optical made the Antares branded 6" f/6.5 scope. So who really made Antares scopes? It may be one of the "Jinghua" factories within the Jinghua Group or one of the optical concerns going by Jinghua. Then there is the plain "Jinghua Optical & Electronics Instruments Company", which seems to be a umbrella company covering three of the four "Jinghua" optical companies above. What i find is at least four optical companies going by "Jinghua": Kunming Jinghua Optical Co, Ningbo Jinghua Optical Co, Guangzhou Jinghua Optical Co and Chengdu Jinghua Optical CO.
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For example, "Sozhou Synta" also translates as "Sozhou Xinda".Īntares/Sky Instruments/ TS(Teleskop-Service)Īntares scopes are commonly reported to be "Made by Jinghua." What "Jinghua" was or is seems not particularly clear. refĬonfusion about all this is due in part, i think, to the uneven translation of Chinese company names to English.
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Synta also now owns Celestron's US facilities through a Delaware-based holding company. Canada), are manufactured by an unaffiliated competitor, Synta Technology Corp, a Taiwan HQ'ed ref company with manufacturing facilities on the mainland in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. What isn't made by Maxvision, Celestron's C6-R and the "Skywatcher" brand version of the same telescope (dist. Meade's AR-6 is made by Maxvision, as is their new ED80 as well. is the nation's largest amateur astronomical telescope manufacturers, production products 99 percent of foreign trade." (text translated from the Chinese by Google from link in next paragraph.)Īnd there's more-Maxvision also makes *some* scopes for -wait for it-Celestron! Seeing is believing: Maxvision factory floor phototour showing boxed AR-6's on factory floor-also look for the Celestron products. Maxvision Spectinomycin / Maxvision brand belongs JOC photoelectric. Major phone lens production and management, consumer electronic products, binoculars, telescopes, PTV rear projection lens and watch the target mirror, microscope, the telescopic sight of the gun with eight series, and so hundreds of varieties, more than 20 countries and regions. Ltd.", "Guangzhou crystal and optoelectronic Technology Limited," "Kunming House4 optical Limited", "Friends of Thailand optical instruments Kunming Industrial and Trade Company "five companies, under the digital optical division, the consumer electronics business, sports optics division, optoelectronic devices business, financial centers, research and development centers, administrative centers of four business and three centers. Group ownership "Guangzhou City House4 Optical Electronics Company Limited", "Guangzhou House4 Photoelectric Instrument Co.
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JOC photoelectric Group was founded in March 1997, is a professional in optoelectronic devices product development, manufacturing and export trade in Hong Kong joint venture. "Maxvision On Kunming House4 & spectinomycin (Maxvision) The following is from the Hong Kong vendor who participated in the factory tour linked to below: JOC is a consortium of five factories in mainland China including the largest, Kunming House4 Optical Co., Ltd. Meade's primary optical subcontractor in Asia (as of 2007 anyway) is a company named "Maxvision" which is a brand of the JOC Photoelectric Group out of Hong Kong. Out of idle curiosity i decided to find out what i could concerning the origin of the various 6" achromats on the market today.