Manufacturers
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Optec, Inc.
Photometers, telecompressors, electric Crayford style focusers, filter wheels and filters, and optical couplers for video microscopy.
Optic-Craft Machining
Offers a variety of complete German equatorial telescope mounts for telescopes up to 20" in aperture. Also manufactures precision clock drives featuring worm gears up to 24" in diameter.
Parks Optical
Newtonian and Newtonian-Cassegrain reflecting telescopes, optical tube assemblies, telescope making components, binoculars, spotting scopes and microscopes, plus eyepieces and accessories.
Roger W. Tuthill, Inc.
Produces a variety of accessories for amateur telescopes including Solar Skreen, No Du Caps, polar axis finders and isostatic mounts for many commercial telescopes.
ScopeCraft, Inc.
Produces the 24" SC-2048 turnkey scientific telescope system and the DriveScope stepper motor control system. Company also custom designs and manufactures complete telescopes, telescope mounts and optical tube assemblies.
Swift Instruments, Inc.
Refractor, reflector and Dobsonian telescopes; binoculars for birding, hunting, marine and long range applications; plus spotting scopes, microscopes, theater glasses and weather instruments.
True Technology Limited
English manufacturer of filter wheels, flip mirrors, filter units and dichroic filters.
ObservatoryScope Robotic Telescopes
http://www.observatoryscope.com/
Observatory class Folded Newtonian and Ritchey-Chretien telescope systems which use hybrid band-worm drives. Also manufactures LIDAR systems, tracking platforms and custom designed drive retrofits for existing telescopes.
Astronomical Consultants & Equipment, Inc.
Designs and manufactures research grade telescopes, finder-guiders, filter boxes and spectrographs, and products for observatory domes. Services include consulting, instrument relocation and retrofits.
Beta Electronics, Inc.
Useful laser pointers with remote on-off switches, suitable for use as a star finder on a telescope.
Clear Skys, Inc.
Produces rotating observatory dome systems constructed of fiberglass, telescope piers, helical fine focus adapters, and various other products for amateurs.
Collins Electro Optics, LLC
Manufactures the I 3 eyepiece visual image intensifier system which features TeleVue optics, and an optional CCD video adapter for real time display.
Denkmeier Optical, Inc.
http://www.deepskybinoviewer.com/
Stereoscopic Binoviewers and Binoviewer accessories for low power, binocular viewing through telescopes.
Equinox Interscience, Inc.
Manufactures complete telescopes, optical tube assemblies and telescope mounts. Company also offers a variety of design services and produces Deep Sky Black, a low reflectivity surface treatment suitable for aerospace applications.
Hutech Corporation
http://www.sciencecenter.net/hutech/
Manufactures the BORG line of telescopes, binocular scopes, spotting scopes and optical tube assemblies. Additional products include motorized altazimuth mounts and a variety of accessories.
Johnsonian Designs
Precision machined equatorial tracking platforms for Dobsonian and altazimuth telescopes. Company offers a very unique, lightweight 18" pop-up carbon fiber travel telescope with full goto capabilities.
Le Sueur Manufacturing Company
Produces the Astro Pier product line of telescope piers for fork mounted and German equatorial telescopes.
Learning Technologies, Inc.
Numerous science and education products including, but not limited to, the STARLAB Portable Planetarium, Project STAR hands-on science materials, the Sunspotter solar telescope plus a variety of learning curriculums.
Lumicon International
Products include Easy Guiders, hypered film and hyper kits, diagonals, the Sky Vector NGC, richfield viewers and many other accessories for amateur astronomers.
Moonlite Telescope Accessories
Extremely robust Crayford style focusers, focuser accessories, truss tubes and truss tube connector systems, plus telescope accent kits to personalize your telescope.
Clement Focuser
http://www.clementfocuser.com/
Uniquely designed, patented focuser for use on a variety of telescopes. Offers optional electric focus mechanisms for their focusers.
Compact Precision Telescopes
http://astronomy-mall.com/regular/products/cpt/
Uniquely designed, collapsible open frame telescopes and primary mirror cells which are CNC machined from aluminum.
R.F. Royce - Precision Optical Components
Compound reflective optical systems including Cassegrain, Ritchey-Chretien, Dall-Kirkham and various modifications. Refractive systems including achromatic and apochromatic objectives and full aperture corrector catadioptric systems including Schmidt, Maksutov and Houghton types along with near focal corrector systems. Also produces off-axis mirrors.
Equatorial Platforms
http://www201.pair.com/resource/astro.html/regular/products/eq_platforms/
Wood and aluminum motorized, low profile equatorial platforms for Dobsonian and other altazimuth telescopes. Various accessories including stepper motor control are available for astrophotography. Complete telescopes up to 28" aperture are also available.
Peterson Engineering Corp.
Buck's precision gears for LX-200s, EZ Balance counterweights, EZ Clutch and EZ Focus kits, Eye Opener visual backs, and Mounting Assistant plates for attaching telescopes to tripods.