Manufacturers
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Al's Custom Telescope Accessories
Produces oak tripods and accessories for Celestron's CG-5 telescope and CI-700 tripod, and for Meade's LXD55 telescope.
Nite I's
Visual astronomy accessories including adapters, eyepieces, extensions, eyepiece parfocalizers, plus telescopes, hardware, and software.
Tectron Telescopes
http://www.amateurastronomy.com/tools.html
Offers collimation tools including basic sight tubes, Chesire eyepieces and autocollimators.
Outman Outdoors USA
Produces a large product line of binoculars for nature study, boating, hunting, astronomy, surveillance and other applications. Site also features on-line factory direct sales.
Eastern Shore Company
Concessionaire of coin-operated viewing machines, since 1973. Products include American-made coin-operated binoculars and telescopes.
ICAS Enterprises
Japanese manufacturer and exporter of optical filters for telescope and industrial use.
Nelson Devices
Produces Quick-Connectors to connect accessories to a variety of commercial telescopes. Site includes compatibility charts, example applications, and FAQ.
L & L Optical Services
Provides a wide range of thin film coatings, specializing in metallic and anti-reflection coatings. Experienced in cleaning and coating glass and metallic substates.
Trico Machine Products
Makes the Sky Window binocular viewing system, and is a full machine shop specializing in design, prototype and production of quality machined parts.
1stBase
http://www.astronomy-mall.com/FirstBase/
Produces collapsible Dobsonian mounts which fold up for storage and transportation. Mounts are available separately or sold with Compact Precision Telescopes tube assemblies.
Aeroquest Machining
http://www.aeroquest-machining.com/
Worm gear drives for the accurate tracking of deep space and planetary objects for viewing and imaging. Stepper and synchronous motor power systems are available.
Shanghai Olive Industries Co., Ltd.
Manufactures optical instruments including biological microscopes, stereo microscopes, telescopes and binoculars. Also produces electronic equipment and garden tools.
Starbuckets Telescopes
Builds premium truss-tube Dobsonian reflectors in small to medium apertures. These apertures fill the void in commercially available, small to mid-sized truss-tube Dobsonians.
De-Zhong Optics.
Professional Chinese optical products manufacturer and exporter, specializing in traditional binoculars, compact binoculars, zoom binoculars, waterproof binoculars, telescopes and microscopes.
Lightholder Optics
http://www.lightholderoptics.com/
Newtonian mirrors made and certified in writing to the most exacting, demanding Millies LaCroix tolerance (1/8 wave at the wavefront), twice as precise as the industry 1/4 wave standard.
NPZ Optics State Corp.
Novosibirsk Instrument-making Plant is one of the leading Russian manufacturers of high quality optical equipment for law enforcement and civilian use, such as day/night vision sights, powerful binoculars and astronomical telescopes.
Agena AstroProducts
Affordable, quality telescope accessories and books for amateur astronomers.
Rainbow Optics
http://www.starspectroscope.com/
Offers the Star Spectroscope line of spectroscopy instruments for use with any telescope. Products are excellent for educational use, demonstrating the scientific information which can be gleamed from examining the spectrum of "black body" radiation sources such as stars.
Armsun Canada
A Canadian sourcing, distribution and manufacturing of photographic, video and digital accessory products (OEM). Sales and reference site for Optisan binoculars.
Dream - Telescopes & Accessories
Offers advanced composite telescopes which utilize carbon fiber, Kevlar and honeycomb materials. Other products include Ritchey-Chretien telescopes, mirror cells, mounting plates and rings, and parts and accessories.
London Opera Glass Company
http://www.operaglasses.co.uk/
Manufactures, installs and services opera glasses within theatres. The service is free to theatres, and allows patrons to rent opera glasses during a performance.
Galileo's Place
Galileo's Place is the home of Galileo telescopes, binoculars, and accessories for telescopes and binoculars
Woden Optics
Manufactures Newtonian optical systems, all types of Cassegrain optical systems including an enhanced Ritchey Chretien optical system with integral field corrector, modified Wynn field correctors, plus optical tube assemblies and complete telescopes made from composite materials. Optical testing services are also available.
Kokusai Kohki
http://www.kkohki.com/English/kkohkiparts.html
Japanese OEM manufacturer of telescope accessories including WIDESCAN Type III Eyepieces, orthoscopic eyepieces, laser collimators, a "correct view" finder, a unique helicoid off-axis eyepiece holder for Lumicon giant EZ guiders and the "HERCULES" Equatorial Mount with go-to capability.
Taychert Telescopes
Produces Dobsonian telescopes in a variety of sizes. The company's FarStar telescope claims to be the lightest weight 18" Dobsonian telescope available from any manufacturer. This company also offers telescopes which are custom built per customer specifications.