Meade Telescopes radiate astronomy quality across the Earth. In the beginning they were formed in Irvine, California; Meade Instruments Corporation construct telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, CCD cameras and telescope accessories that are marketed around the Earth to amateur and professional astronomers alike.
Meade were established in nineteen seventy-two by John Diebel. The company itself started as a mail order trader of small refracting telescopes and telescope accessories. The proprietor rapidly branched out the business into the Schimidt-Cassegrain design that had previously had been dominated by the Celestron Corporation. Meade has carried on growing its business portfolio until it is at this time perhaps the World s largest telescope company. At the start of 2008 they moved their manufacturing capability across the border into Mexico.