Manufacturers
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Hioptic Military and Professional Outdoor Optics Company
Chinese manufacturer and exporter of military and outdoor optical systems. Product lines include spotting scopes, military binoculars ,astronomical telescopes, shooting & rifle scopes, military & professional compasses, night vision equipment plus other accessories.
Konus Italia Group
Italian manufacturer of telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, compasses and magnifying glasses.
Lin Optics Co., Ltd.
Taiwanese manufacturer of small refractor and reflector telescopes, microscopes.
Long Perng
Taiwanese manufacturer of spotting scopes, field scopes, telescopes, and binoculars.
Medic Care (Far East) Co.
Chinese manufacturer of small telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes. Also manufactures a variety of other products.
Mingca
Chinese manufacturer and exporter of telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, monoculars, microscopes and tripods.
North United Co., Ltd.
Chinese manufacturer of binoculars, telescopes, riflescopes, spotting scopes, night vision scopes, golf scopes.
Telescopes for Amateur Astronomers
Russian manufacturer of TAL brand telescopes including refractors, Newtonians, and Klevtsov modified Maksutov-Cassegrains; and additional products including binoculars, night vision equipment, riflescopes and many accessories.
Oldham Optical U.K.
http://www.oldham-optical.co.uk/
Offers telescope accessories including mirrors, lenses prisms, and calibration equipment to the professional and amateur market. Site features excellent treatises on optical testing and terms used by opticians to describe optical quality.
Optical Development Workshop of Academy of Sciences
Czech Republic developer and manufacturer of optics elements and systems.
Starchair Engineering Pty. Ltd.
Australian manufacturer of motorized observing chairs which accommodate both the observer plus either binoculars or small telescopes.
Swarovski Optik
Austrian manufacturer of binoculars, telescopes, rifle scopes, night vision instruments, and tripods.
Telescope Technologies Ltd.
British manufacturer of large turn-key robotic telescope systems. Additional products and services include engineering research and development, project engineering management, instrumentation, complete electro-optical systems, plus a number of engineering related services.
Wildcard Innovations Pty. Ltd.
http://www.wildcard-innovations.com.au/
Australian manufacturer of Argo Navis Digital Telescope Computer systems for alt-azimuth, fork and German equatorial telescope mounts.
Wins Binoculars and Telescopes
http://www.winsbinoculars.com/
Chinese manufacturer and distributor of telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, rifle scopes and other optical instruments.
Advanced Optics Limited
Produces the Vanguard 500, a complete 20" Ritchey-Chretien Telescope system.
DAR Astro Machining
http://www.oneilphoto.on.ca/oneilatm.htm
Products include mirror cells, helical and double helical focusers, eyepiece adapters, video camera adapters and eyepiece parfocal rings. Company is located in Canada.
Omega Optical, Inc.
Designs and manufactures custom astronomy filters and prescription sets, for a wide variety of university programs, observatories, government agencies, and international consortia. Develops solutions for the spectral, optical, and environmental demands of each filter application.
Ceravolo Optical Systems
Offers custom optics fabrication, design consulting and optical testing services for the scientific, industrial and astronomical communities.
Black Knight Telescopes
http://members.aol.com/blackknightscope/
Produces lightweight, medium-aperture, Dobsonian telescopes.
Astro Optik
Large telescope systems including Hypergraphs, Deltagraphs, Cassegrains and Ritchey-Chretiens, Newtonians, Dobsonians and Schmidt cameras.
Precision Optics
http://hometown.aol.com/precisionoptics/myhomepage/business.html
Offers repair, cleaning and collimation services for binoculars, telescopes, rifle and spotting scopes. Specializes in repair of antique and military instruments.
Opticast, Inc.
http://www.opticastmirrors.com/
Produces, using a patented casting technique, low cost diffraction limited replica optical mirrors for astronomical and other applications.
Ufind Optics Company, Ltd.
http://www.binocularschina.com/
Chinese manufacturer and exporter of binoculars, telescopes, monoculars, golfscopes and spotting scopes.
43 Degrees South Astro
http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/43s_astro/
Produces solar filters and binocular mounts for amateur astronomers. Located in New Zealand.