Alachua Astronomy Club: Astronomy Businesses and Companies

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Astronomy Related Businesses & Companies (incl. Telescopes)

(Planetarium Manufacturers & Related Equipment Listed at End)

Number of Stars Without a Telescope? This page contains lists of businesses, companies and organizations providing astronomical products. (For publishers and publications, see the AAC Publisher Page.) For supplementary lists of vendors see The Astronomy Guide Vendor List and The Astronomy Guide Manufacturer List.

For a very large list of astronomy businesses, also see The Astronomy Yellow Pages.

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123Greetings.com — Greeting cards for "Telescope Day."

Advanced Telescope Systems — Manufacturer of quality portable & permanent telescope piers.

Anacortes Telescope & Wild Bird — major distributor of nearly all telescope brands.

Analytical Scientific, Ltd. — Claims to be largest supplier of astronomical telescopes and accessories in Texas.

Astrodon — Imaging products for the serious amateur incl. Astrodon filters designed to match the sensitivity of modern CCD cameras.

Astro Haven — Builds low cost clam shell observatories ideal for universities and individual astronomers. (Flexible clam shell design and fiberglass construction leads to low acquisition and maintenance costs.)

Astronomy Classifieds — From Astronomy Mall

Astronomy Classifieds — From Astrosights.

Astronomy Mall — Links to lots of astro businesses.

Astronomy Sky Pointer — Green laser pointers.

Astronomics — Supplier of name brand telescopes, spotting scopes and binoculars.

Astro-Physics, Inc. — Manufacturer of state of the art apochromatic refractors

bigbinoculars.com — "Their slogan is "Astronomical Binoculars (56mm - 150mm) at the lowest prices in the universe".

Celestial Products — Books, calendars, cards, posters, gifts and more.

Celestron International — A leading and established name in optics for telescopes. Offers a wide range of telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, and optical accessories. (See note by Tasco below).

Company Seven — A resource for the international professional and amateur astronomical community.

Coronado — Solar filters and telescopes, precisions optical instruments.

Coulter Optics — Manufacturer of the popular Odyssey Dobsonian Telescopes (also see Murnaghan below).

DayStar Filters — A leading manufacturer of solar filters including H-alpha for both professionals and amateurs.

DistantSuns: Portable Universe Astronomy Software — Night sky software for both casual skywatchers & seasoned amateur astronomers published by VendorNation.com.

Edmund Scientific — A major supplier of optical and scientific supplies and laboratory equipment for industry, education and the consumer. Their Astroscan 2001 Telescope has been a world famous telescope for many years!

Equatorial Platforms — Precision Tracking Equatorial platforms for Dobs, SpicaEyes Large Aluminum Telescopes also with GoTo drives

Focus Camera — Well known, reliable large mail order house for photographic equipment and supplies with a large telescope and accessories section.

Imaginova Co. — an integrated multimedia content and commerce company capturing people’s fascination with space. Acquired Orion Telescopes in January 2005.

Intane Optics — A leading manufacturer of customized high-quality precision optics in China providing apochromatic refractors, apochromatic & optical lenses, telescope eyepieces.

International Star Registry (ISR)Since 1979 has named and registered hundreds of thousands of stars for celebrities, dignitaries, and individuals worldwide. Most astronomers, many astronomical societies, including the IAU, oppose this money making scheme. Before you buy, be sure to read Buying A Star FAQ.

Internet Telescope Exchange (ITE) — Contains an online catalog of low cost astronomy equipment.

Jim's Mobile, Inc. — Manufacturer of advanced telescope products.

Kendrick Astro Instruments — Manufacturer of popular Kendrick Dew Removal System.

Ken's Rings and Telescope Accessories — An amateur who likes to refurbish telescope's and mounts.

Litebox Telescopes — Manufacturer of large dobsonian telescopes.

Losmandy — Precision equatorial mounts and secondary systems.

Lumicon — Well known retailer of telescopes and accessories.

Lunar Map Pro — Compreshensive 360° atlas and tools for advanced lunar study by RITI.

Lunar Phase Pro Software — Moon observer's software toolkit.

Mallincam — Top of the line video CCD observational systems.

Meade Instruments Corp. — One of the largest selling manufacturers of telescopes.

Murnaghan Instruments — CCD, Telescopes, Video Microscopy, Imaging. (Also manufacturer of Coulter Odyssey Telescopes—see above.)

Nightfire Scientific, Ltd. — Dedicated to the advancement of amateur astronomy equipment. Aims to supply amateur astronomy community with the highest "performance-to-price" ratio in astronomical telescopes and accessories.

Novosibirsk Instrument-Making Plant (NIP) — Dealer and exporter for NIP, Russian manufacturer and exporter of amateur telescopes. Advertises production of first-class telescopes that feature solid performance and high qualitative optics at an attractive price.

Obsession Telescope — Manufacturer of big dobsonian telescopses.

Orion Telescopes and Binoculars — A well known, major astronomy center that with a big mail order business. Send for their informative, free 100-page catalog. Bought by Imaginova Co. in Jan. 2005.

Personal MicroCosms — Features utilities, games, and astronomy programs for Windows 95, Windows 98, and NT.

Questar Corporation — World's first small telescope and one of finest small telescopes ever produced.

SAC — CCD imaging systems, affordable, easy to use entry level CCD cameras.

SBIG Astronomical Instruments — A pioneer in the manufacture of high quality CCD cameras.

ScopeGuard — Manufacturer of quality custom built telescope transport cases built for telescope users, by telescope users. Each case custom built either to the standard dimensions of your telescope, or customized for your personal needs.

Selznick Scientific Software, Inc. — Produces MoonMenu software for PC/Mac. (Renders small picture of Moon in current phase on computer screen.)

Sky Commander — Manufacture of Skycommander digital setting circles

Sky Hound — Produces Skytools Software to aid observers with planners, charts, databases and logbooks. Highly recommended by Sky & Telescope.

SkyMap Software — Produces Chris Marriott's SkyMap Pro, probably the most flexible sky charting software. Well suited for most types of general observing.

Sky Publishing — Sky & Telescope's On-Line Store.

Sky Shed — Observatory sheds, plans, piers and the Pod.

Sky Watcher Telescopes — by Pacific Telescope Corp.

SmartAstronomy — An authorized dealer for Meade and Vixen Optics, as well as many other manufacturers. They also have an eBay Store: TELESCOPE PRODUCTS SMARTASTRONOMY

Software Bisque — Major developer of astronomical software including a leading sky charting software program, TheSky

Spitz, Inc. — Major designer and manufacturer of planetarium, spherical projection systems and simulators.

Starmaster Telescope — Well-known manufacturer of very large dobsonian, portable telescopes.

StarMessage: The Moon Phases Screensaver — View current Moon Phase & write your Messages in the Stars.

Starry Night Lights — Night sky friendly outdoor lighting products.

Starry Night Store — Markets the popular planetarium packages Starry Night, Pro & Pro Plus, and more.

Sunlong Optics — Optical products (based in Taiwan).

Takahashi Telescopes — USA Importers Land, Sea & Sky (Texas Nautical Repairs) -- see also Anacortes Telescopes, Astronomics.

Tasco — A widely recognized name in optics often associated with low end telescopes and a large range of other optical products marketed through major retailers and mail order catalogue, etc. (Note: Sky and Telescope's Weekly News Bulletin for the week of March 27, 1998 announced Tasco had signed a letter of intent to buy Celestron International. The news note also states the companies will continue to operate independently.)

Tele Vue Optics, Inc. — Manufacturer of world class refractors and eyepieces.

Telescope Links — List of sponsored telescope links.

Telescope Warehouse — New, used, discontinued & hard-to-find telescope equipment from Meade, Celestron &d other top companies. Exclusive providers of Paul Rini eyepieces.

Thousand Oaks Optical — Manufacturer of SAFE Solar filters for 20 years.

Tpoint Software — Unique interactive modeling tool to discover and measure telescope misalignments and flexures to allow for high-precision professional & amateur telescope pointing applications.

Virtual Moon Atlas — Free software for Moon observation or survey.

Webster Telescopes — Manufacture of large aperture Dobs (up to 40-in.) and Argonavis digital setting circles.

Willmann-Bell, Inc. — Both a larger publisher and a supplier of mirror making kits and supplies).

Planetarium Manufacturers and Related Equipment
Astro-Tech Manufacturing, Inc.

Baader Planetarium

East Coast Control Systems

Evans & Sutherland

GOTO Inc.

Konica Minolta Planetarium Co., Ltd.

Mirage3D

Portable Planetariums (Argentina company making portable planetariums)

R.S.A. Cosmos

Seiler (Sistributes Zeiss in USA)

SEOS

Sky-Skan, Inc.

Spitz, Inc.

Starlab Portable Planetariums

Zeiss

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Number of Stars Without a Telescope?	This page contains lists of businesses, companies and organizations providing astronomical products. (For publishers and publications, see the AAC Publisher Page.) For supplementary lists of vendors see The Astronomy Guide Vendor List and The Astronomy Guide Manufacturer List. For a very large list of astronomy businesses, also see The Astronomy Yellow Pages.
Number of Stars Without a Telescope?	Interested in Buying a Telescope? It's not easy. Perhaps a visit to our telescope buying links will help. Need a solar filter? Click here.
Please send additions and corrections to webmaster@floridastars.org.