For the unrelated North American telescope retailer, go to Orion Telescopes & Binoculars

Orion Telescopes & Binoculars

For the unrelated British telescope manufacturer, go to Orion OpticsOrion Telescopes & Binoculars is an American-based retailer of foreign manufactured telescopes and other equipment for astronomy that also sells some equipment for other areas of interest, such as birdwatching...

Orion Optics is a telescope

Telescope

A telescope is an instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation . The first known practical telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 1600s , using glass lenses...

 manufacturer in Crewe

Crewe

Crewe is a railway town within the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census the urban area had a population of 67,683...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. They produce a wide range of Newtonian reflectors and advanced Maksutov

Maksutov telescope

The Maksutov is a catadioptric telescope design that combines a spherical mirror with a weakly negative meniscus lens in a design that takes advantage of all the surfaces being nearly "spherically symmetrical". The negative lens is usually full diameter and placed at the entrance pupil of the...

 catadioptric

Catadioptric

A catadioptric optical system is one where refraction and reflection are combined in an optical system, usually via lenses and curved mirrors . Catadioptric combinations are used in focusing systems such as search lights, headlamps, early lighthouse focusing systems, optical telescopes,...

 telescopes.

A family run firm, Orion Optics are the only remaining major manufacturer of telescopes in the UK. They have recently produced a new range of very well received Dobsonian style reflectors.

They also carry a range of Vixen equipment

Vixen (telescopes)

Vixen is a Japanese company that makes telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes and accessories for their products.Among many other more mainstream products they have created two unusual varieties of catadioptric telescopes with an open tube design instead of the full-aperture corrector plate of the...

, and a large range of accessories.