Celestron | X-ON
Celestron, LLC designs, manufactures, and imports optical products, including computerized and non-computerized telescopes, GPS devices, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, and related accessories. The company offers astronomy products, such as optical tubes, mounts and tripods, astronomy binoculars, astroimaging cameras and accessories, visual accessories, and other accessories; sport optics, including binoculars, monoculars, spotting scopes, outdoor electronics, and accessories; and microscopes comprising digital, biological, and stereo microscopes, as well as weather stations and microscope accessories. It sells and markets its products to astronomers through dealers and distributors in the United States and internationally. Celestron, LLC was formerly known as Valor Electronics. The company was founded in 1960 and is based in Torrance, California with an additional office in Basingstoke, United Kingdom. As of June 4, 2005, Celestron, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Synta Technology Corporation.