Meade Instruments has filed for bankruptcy protection following a November 26 jury verdict in an antitrust lawsuit, which found the company and its parent, Ningbo Sunny Electronic Co., liable for ...

Do you like to take images of large star fields or pictures of extended nebulous objects using an astronomical CCD, cooled CMOS, or DSLR camera? If the answer is yes, you’ll want to take a hard look ...

There was a time when building a telescope was a rite of passage for budding astronomers, much as building a radio was the coming age for electronics folks. These days, many things are cheaper to buy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...