Meade Instruments Corp. designs, manufactures, imports, and distributes telescopes, telescope accessories, binoculars, spotting scopes, and other consumer products in the United States and internationally. The company offers LX200 series of telescopes, which combine LX200 with the precision of advanced coma free optics; LX90GPS that brings global positioning system capabilities to Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope; LS computerized telescopes that use Lightswitch technology; LT, LXD75, ETX, NG, NGC, and Digital Electronic series of telescopes; Truss Dobsonian telescopes; Deep Sky Imager series of charge-coupled device cameras; personal solar telescopes; and SolarMax telescopes. It also provides weather stations and digital clocks; and accessories, such as additional eyepieces, multi-media celestial observation guides, and software. The company offers its products under the Meade and Coronado brands. It primarily serves amateur astronomy and sporting goods consumers through a network of mail order and Internet dealers, specialty retailers, distributors, and mass merchandisers. Meade Instruments Corp. was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

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