Company Profile for Meade Instruments Corp.Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE) Meade Instruments
Meade Instruments Corporation (aka Meade) is a company based in Irvine, California, that manufactures and imports telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, CCD cameras and telescope Corp. designs, manufactures and markets consumer outdoor optical products, including telescopes, binoculars binoculars Optical instrument for providing a magnified view of distant objects, consisting of two similar telescopes, one for each eye, mounted on a single frame. In most binoculars, each telescope has two prisms, which reinvert the inverted image provided by the eyepiece , and rifle scopes. The company's products are available worldwide through a network of specialty retailers, mass merchandisers, and domestic and foreign distributors. Meade's telescopes for the beginning to serious amateur astronomer and its CaptureView line of binoculars feature digital technologies that differentiate them from previous generation instruments. Its telescopes with AutoStar feature on-board On board usually means to be traveling on some vehicle. For example, Baby On Board. Compare with overboard. Metaphorically, the term on-board is often used to refer to some piece of technology that is integrated in a moving vehicle, for example: adj. 1. Of or relating to the sky or the heavens: Planets are celestial bodies. 2. Of or relating to heaven; divine: celestial beings. 3. databases and "go-to" capabilities that automatically center a celestial object in the field of view. The company complements its telescope telescope, traditionally, a system of lenses, mirrors, or both, used to gather light from a distant object and form an image of it. Traditional optical telescopes, which are the subject of this article, also are used to magnify objects on earth and in astronomy; line with a broad assortment of accessories. Meade's CaptureView binoculars integrate a VGA (Video Graphics Array) The display standard for the PC. All PC display adapters support VGA, and Windows machines boot up in "VGA mode" before switching to higher resolutions. , 1.3 or 2.0 megapixel One million pixels. Refers to the resolution of a digital imaging device (monitor, scanner, video camera, still camera, etc.). For example, a five-megapixel digital still camera might take a picture composed of 5,038,848 red-green-blue color dots (pixels). digital camera and capacity to download images to a PC. Meade also offers a complete line of rifle scopes and binoculars under the Simmons(R), Weaver(R) and Redfield(R) brand names. Its complete line of binoculars addresses the needs of everyone from the casual observer to the serious sporting or birding observer. Internationally, the company is one of the largest distributors of telescopes and binoculars, including its Bresser Optic and Meade brands.
Company: Meade Instruments Corp.
Headquarters Address: 6001 Oak Canyon
Irvine, California 92620
Main Telephone: 949-451-1450
Website: http://www.meade.com
Ticker: MEAD(Nasdaq)
Type of Organization: Public
Industry: Optical Instruments and Lens
Key Executives: CEO: Steven Murdock
CFO: Brent Christensen
Investor Relations
Contact: Brent Christensen
Phone: 949-451-1450
Investor Relations
Contact: Philip Bourdillon
Phone: 310-208-2550
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