Meade Telescopes

Meade instruments began sometime in 1972. It started out by supplying refracting telescopes via mail orders. Its initial capital was just $2500. When it began it was nothing but a one person business.

The business soon grew. In its first year the sales were under $8000. Meade was smart to recognize that there was a great demand for telescope accessories and it realized that this demand was not being met adequately by the market.

In 1972 Meade added orthoscopic and Kellner eyepieces and soon after it added precision rack and pinion focusers, viewfinders, cameras, filters, camera adaptors and many more of such accessories.

Astronomy and Meade have shared a relationship since 1980. It was in 1977 that Meade Instruments produced their very first in house manufactured telescope. The Meade models 628 and 826 6” and 8 “reflecting telescopes were the fist to be manufactured.

For a long time Meade was considered as the largest producers of telescopes in the world. By 1995 Meade Industries was no stranger to any part of the world. Wherever telescopes were sold, a large production of Meade telescopes was sold.

As compared to other producers, Meade sold the most number of telescopes around the world.

Meade’s list of its innovations is very impressive. It is hard to ever believe that sometime at its origin this company was a mere one man business. Word spread extremely fast among amateurs about Meads ability to produce some great quality telescopes.

In 1978 Meade took on one of its biggest ever challenges, The Schmidt - Cassegrain telescope market.

It took three very long years to develop it and drained them of all their financial as well as engineering resources. Meade struggled during this production but never gave up, they were determined to present to the market it’s the Meade 2080 8” Schmidt – Cassegrain.

After the announcement of this model in the market in 1980, meads popularity was at an all time high.

Every year after that Meade came out with new telescopes as well as telescope accessories and provided the finest in terms of quality. In the year 1986 Meade Industries was acknowledged as the largest and the leading company in the production of serious telescopes around the world.

Unlike other telescope companies, Meade has grown considerably in the last 30 years, the key being that the company has not wavered on its quality.

Over the years Meade has come out with new products but has always maintained its good quality. It continues to remain a well reputed company in the production of telescopes.