Officina Stellare
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| S.r.l (Società a responsabilità limitata): ≈ Ltd. (UK), LLC (US) | |
| Industry | Optical instruments |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Thiene, Italy |
| Products | Telescopes |
| Website | Officina Stellare website |
Officina Stellare is an Italian manufacturer specialized in professional telescopes for aerospace, research and astroimaging.
Company
The headquarters of the company are in Thiene where R&D, engineering, manufacturing and quality control takes place.
The logo of OFFICINA STELLARE has its roots in the origin of observational astronomy. The star is a graphic evolution of the original star in the Pleiades originally drawn by Galileo in the Sidereus Nuncius (1610). Those drawings were a revolution in the history of science and astronomy.[1] The red color of the logo is the Hydrogen Alpha line color.
Products
The range of optical systems includes: Ritchey Chrétien, Aplanatic Ritchey Chrétien, Ultra Corrected Ritchey Chrétien, Riccardi Dall-Kirkham, Riccardi-Honders, Maksutov Cassegrain, Apochromatic Refractors, custom design optics.
Observatories, Scientific and Educational Institutes with Officina Stellare telescopes
- Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory - Coquimbo Region, Chile [2]
- MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Massachusetts, USA
- Caltech California Institute of Technology - California, USA
- National Taiwan University - Taipei, Taiwan
- Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment - Astronomical Observatory of Aosta Valley - St. Bartelemy, Italy [3]
- SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy - NASA's Ames Research Center - California, USA
See also
References
- ↑ "Company Profile". Retrieved 2012-02-17.
- ↑ "CHASE Project: CHilean Automatic Supernova sEarch" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-08.
- ↑ "The new scientific platform for the APACHE Project". Retrieved 2012-03-06.