Orion 120 ED first impressions

I just came from astrofest which was a very wet affair by day with a few breaks in the clouds at night. Most of the clear that we did have was quite unexpected and so very few scopes were actually going. In any event 20/20 Telescopes had their usuall impressive display of scopes for sale including the new Orion 120 ED. I took several opportunities to look through it with a 5mm Stratus during the day and looked at numerous terrestrial objects. At times there were brief sucker holes and the sun shone through which allowed me to see some glints of sunlight which produced excellent artificial stars to take advantage of. I was very impressed with the star test. There was pretty good spherical correction, actually better than my 80 ED, and there was no appreciable color to be seen. Collimation and baffeling seemed to be good as well. Overall I was impressed with this scope and if they are all like this it will be another winner and at a good price. Now if we can only see what the new 5-inch Meade apo is going to look like...

If your willing to give up 10mm aperture, the WO ZS110 is a much better deal IMO - A TMB Triplet, CNC Tube, Rotating 2.7" focuser, 11:1FF, Sliding dew shield, and a faster F-Ratio, for just a few dollars more...

And I can confirm it is not vaporware - perfect star test and no color.