Celestron
Sign in to saveCelestron, LLC is a company that manufactures telescopes and distributes telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, and accessories manufactured by its parent company, the Synta Technology Corporation of Taiwan.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Celestron, LLC
- Company.logo
- Celestron_Logo_as_of_2015.svg
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.predecessor
- Valor Electronics
- Company.founder
- Tom Johnson
- Company.industry
- Optical instruments
- Company.products
- Telescopes and other optical / mechanical devices
- Company.foundation
- (as Celestron Pacific)
- Company.location_city
- Torrance, California
- Company.location_country
- United States
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Celestron, LLC is a company that manufactures telescopes and distributes telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, and accessories manufactured by its parent company, the Synta Technology Corporation of Taiwan.
==History== The predecessor of Celestron was Valor Electronics, an electronics and military components firm founded in 1955 by Tom Johnson. Johnson became involved with telescopes when he built a 6" reflecting telescope for his two sons. In 1960, Johnson established the "Astro-Optical" division of Valor, which would later become Celestron.