Directors of Meade Instruments Corp., which has helped foster the consumer market with its easy-to-use telescopes and binoculars since 1972, may be tipping their hand by Monday on whether to recommend ...

Telescope maker Meade Instruments has been sold to affiliates of Chinese manufacturer Ningbo Sunny Electronic Co. for $5.9 million, ending months of speculation over the future of a storied Irvine ...

The Celestron Inspire 100AZ Refractor Telescope and Meade Instruments Polaris 114mm Reflector Telescope are both excellent telescopes. This versus guide puts the two head-to-head to help you decide ...

LAS VEGAS -- Need a reason to go camping? Here's a great one. Meade Instruments showed off its new telescope at CES 2009, a 30-pound mean machine makes the night sky come alive. It's astronomy for ...

To some, Irvine-based telescope maker Meade Instruments Corp. has lost its focus. The maker of telescopes, binoculars and microscopes has been dogged by supply issues since moving the last of its ...

Meade Instruments Corp., the Irvine maker of telescopes and binoculars, has settled a lawsuit by rivals Star Instruments and RC Optical Systems. The two companies claimed Meade falsely described ...

The world’s leading telescope manufacturer has signed an agreement to acquire Coronado Technology Group, the world’s leading manufacturer and distributor of hydrogen-alpha solar telescopes and filters ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Meade Instruments ® (NasdaqGM: MEAD), a leading designer and manufacturer of telescopes and optical accessories for both professional and amateur astronomy enthusiasts ...

This review, “Star power,” appeared in the July 2004 issue of Astronomy magazine. Meade’s 10-inch LX200GPS-SMT with Autostar Suite hurried along something that’s been a long time coming in my life: ...

Shares of Meade Instruments Corp. skyrocketed Monday in its first trading session since the Irvine-based company announced it was set to be acquired for $4.5 million by the North American unit of ...

Meade Instruments Corp. said today it will close its Irvine plant, which makes telescopes and other optical products by March. By that time, the company also plans to lay off 120 workers. Meade plans ...

Irvine telescope maker Meade Instruments has filed for bankruptcy protection just days after its Chinese owner lost an antitrust case alleging a conspiracy to squeeze a competitor out of business.