March 8 - Alvan Clark, telescope manufacturer (d. 1887)
Some other telescope manufacturers use Takahashi refractors as collimating instruments for larger telescopes.
The last two designs are popular with telescope manufacturers because they are compact and use simple spherical optics.
Ltd. was a telescope manufacturer, more commonly known as Grubb Parsons based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Orion Optics is a telescope manufacturer in Crewe, England in the United Kingdom.
His father is the business manager of the Questar Corporation, a telescope manufacturer in New Hope, Pa.
August 19 - Alvan Clark (born 1804), telescope manufacturer.
Obsession Telescopes is an American telescope manufacturer that specializes in Dobsonian telescopes.
Henry Fitz was a notable American telescope manufacturer.
Meade Instruments would eventually become the world's largest telescope manufacturer for amateur astronomy with distribution in over thirty countries.
