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Orion Telescopes & Binoculars was an American retail company that sold telescopes, binoculars and accessories online and in-store for astronomy and birdwatching. It was founded in 1975 and had corporate offices in Watsonville, California. [1] A large proportion of its products were manufactured by the Chinese company Synta for the Orion brand ...
The Meade Instruments (also shortened to Meade) was an American multinational company headquartered in Watsonville, California, that manufactures, imports, and distributes telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, CCD cameras, and telescope accessories for the consumer market. [2]
The Orton Memorial Laboratory is a historic building in the Weinland Park neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1] [2]
Construction of the Center began in the Fall of 1992, Kenneth R. Gay II was the Architect, [5] and the 8,000-square-foot (740 m 2) facility addition opened in June 1993. The Kopernik Society and the Roberson Museum hosted a grand 25th anniversary celebration event on June 5, 1999, at the Kopernik Space Education Center.
Steward was a wealthy widow who had an interest in astronomy and a desire to memorialize her late husband, Mr. Henry Steward. [2] Douglass made plans to use the Steward gift to construct a 36-inch diameter Newtonian reflecting telescope.
Ban Moh Astronomy Center, Saraburi Province; Astronomy and Science Center, Mahidol Wittayanusorn School; Hatyai Deepsky Observation for Science, Hatyai; Roiet Science and Cultural Centre for Education, Roi Et Province; Nakhon Ratchasima Regional Observation For The Public, Suranaree University of Technology; Astronomy and Science Center, Nakhon ...
Perkins Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Delaware, Ohio.It is owned and operated by Ohio Wesleyan University.. In 1931 it had the third largest telescope in the World; the 69 inch aperture Perkins telescope came online at this observatory. [1]
Iota Orionis (ι Orionis, abbreviated ι Ori) is a multiple star system in the equatorial constellation of Orion the hunter. It is the eighth-brightest member of Orion with an apparent visual magnitude of 2.77 and also the brightest member of the asterism known as Orion's Sword. It is a member of the NGC 1980 open cluster.