Company History
The company was founded in 1988 as Synta Optics, at first producing only eyepieces. In 1992, the head office changed position to Suzhou (Jiangsu) in China. Their first telescopes (4.5“ (114 mm) -Newtonians) were distributed by Celestron and Tasco. In 1993, the first refracting telescopes were produced. In 1999, the brand „Sky-Watcher“ was established to sell Synta optics from then on under an own label. The head office was in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. From 2000, the first dobsonians were produced, then in 2001 the first Maksutov-Cassegrain, and in 2004 the first ED-APO. In 2005, an American affiliated company of Synta bought the company Celestron. Since 2008, there has been cooperation with Schott AG, a German manufacturer of high-quality industrial glass.
Sky-Watcher's product line-up contains telescopes from 2.4“ (60 mm) up to 14“ (355 mm) aperture with manual, motor-driven or GoTo mounts. Since 2008, Sky-Watcher has been the only worldwide manufacturer of FlexTube-dobsonians with collapsible tubes, a patent-registered design.
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