Sky-Watcher

Sky-Watcher is one of the world's largest manufacturer of telescopes and astronomical accessories such as eyepieces and mounts.

The company was founded in 1988 as Synta Optics, first eyepieces were produced exclusively. In 1992 the headquarters moved to Suzhou in China; first telescopes ( 114mm Newtonian reflectors ) were expelled by the Company Celestron and Tasco, in the following year also first refractors were made ​​. Then the brand of " Sky-Watcher " was founded in 1999, which is headquartered in Richmond, Canada to sell Synta optics now under its own label. Since 2000, the range was extended to Dobson, produced on the first Maksutov -Cassegrain in the year 2004, the first ED Apochromat. 2005 bought a U.S. subsidiary of Synta Optics the telescope manufacturer Celestron. Since 2008 there has been cooperation with Schott AG of Mainz, one of the world's leading manufacturer of industrial glass.

The Sky-Watcher product range includes amateur telescopes from 60mm to 406mm aperture are manual, motorized or mounted with GoTo. Since 2008 produces Sky-Watcher is the only manufacturer worldwide FlexTube Dobson with zusammenschiebbarem tube, a patented design.