I'm listing this for my father. I've used the scope a few times myself and it is a good one. For sale: Meade 8" Starfinder Reflecting Telescope with a German equatorial mount, 115 volt clock drive, ...

Meade Instruments has filed for bankruptcy protection following a November 26 jury verdict in an antitrust lawsuit, which found the company and its parent, Ningbo Sunny Electronic Co., liable for ...

Meade Instruments, the leading designer and manufacturer of telescopes and optical accessories for both professional and amateur astronomy enthusiasts worldwide, has announced the completion of the ...

LAS VEGAS -- Need a reason to go camping? Here's a great one. Meade Instruments showed off its new telescope at CES 2009, a 30-pound mean machine makes the night sky come alive. It's astronomy for ...

Galileo Galilei didn’t invent the telescope. That honor (or at least the first patent application, in 1608) belongs to Hans Lippershey, a German/Dutch optician. The stars weren’t on Lippershey’s mind.