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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Headquarters | Watsonville, California, United States |
Key people | Peter Moreo, President[1] Deborah Woodward "VP Ops" |
| Products | Optical and electromechanical instruments |
| Owner | Optronic Holding Corp |
| Website | meade |
The Meade Instruments (also shortened to Meade) is an American multinational company headquartered in Watsonville, California, that manufactures, imports, and distributes telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, CCD cameras, and telescope accessories for the consumer market.[2] It is the world's largest manufacturer of telescopes.[3][may be outdated as of July 2024]
Besides selling under its "Meade" brand name, the company sells solar telescopes under the brand "Coronado".[4]
In July 2024, Sky and Telescope magazine reported that Optronic Technologies, the owner of Meade Instruments and Orion Telescopes, had closed their facilities in California and had laid off all of their employees. As of July 15, there had been no official announcement from the company, and S&T said they were trying to get more information from their sources.[5][may be outdated as of July 2024]
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- ^ Meade Instruments Announces Sale of Meade Europe Operations for Gross Cash Proceeds of US$12.4 Million[permanent dead link] Retrieved Jan 29, 2009
- ^ https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/meade-and-orion-cease-operations-maybe/ [bare URL]