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Brands

Brands

At Astrograph we specialise in offering premium quality equipment and service. When we choose a brand to offer, it must not only meet our minimum standards for performance, but we must also be able to expect a high level of support from the manufacturer or distributor.

Most of the brands we offer are premium, high end brands that have a reputation for the highest levels of performance. Many of these we represent either exclusively or distribute. Not all the brands we offer are high end, some are lower cost, mainstream products. No matter, they have to meet the same standards for quality and support.

We believe our approach to product choice provides our customers with equipment that will allow them to experience Astronomy at the very highest levels for years to come whether their interest be visual, imaging or scientific. 


10Micron

10Micron

10Micron are based in Italy. Over the years they have gained a solid reputation for superbly made mounts offering very high performance at all capacity levels. We keep 10Micron product available from demonstration in order to allow you to experience and see the inherent quality.

Antlia

Antlia

Based in China, Antlia provides a series of premium H-Alpha, SII, OIII narrowband filters, LRGB-V filters, filter drawers, adapters, holders, and related astronomy accessories for deep-sky photography.

APM Telescopes

APM Telescopes

APM Telescopes of Germany has had a reputation for high performance optics for over 25 years. In that time APM has expanded to include not just astronomical telescopes, but also binoculars, spotting scopes, eyepieces, optical correctors and accessories. APM's premium astronomical telescopes feature LZOS optics. LZOS are unique in being the only manufacturer of apochromatic lenses that control every step of the production process from rare earth minerals, glass production and final finished lens. Together with LZOS, APM offer the worlds widest range of Apochromats including the worlds largest in sizes from 100mm to 510mm. Astrograph are APM's official UK distributor.

ASA

ASA

AstroSystemeAustria are one of the worlds premium astronomy brands. They are one of the early pioneers of direct drive mounts and continue to lead the world in accuracy. In addition to mounts, ASA also offer professional grade telescopes up to 2.5m. All ASA equipment is designed and built in house including mirror and lens production. They are made to the finest standards and represent outstanding craftsmanship. Astrograph are proud to be ASA's exclusive UK partner and can provide demonstrations of ASA mount and scope performance via remote hosted systems under dark skies.

Astro Devices

Astro Devices

Digital setting circles leverage modern encoder tecnology to allow ordinary manual mounts to become sophisticated 'push to' designs allowing you to find any object in the sky with ease. Astro Devices of Australia offer the most capable digital setting circles available together with a comprehensive range of encoder kits to convert many mounts to push to operation. Astrograph are Astro Devices UK distributor.

Astrodon

Astrodon

Founded by Don Goldman, Astrodon filters are considered the worlds best filters for astronomical imaging. Astrograph are proud to be a supplier of Astrodon although often we never have any stock due to the demand for these peerless filters! As a specialist in large format cameras, we try and keep 50mm filters available at all times but demand is such this is not always possible!

Astronomik

Astronomik

Manufactured in Germany, Astronomik filters have gained a reputation for fine quality visual and imaging filters for astronomical applications. Astronomik are also an innovator being responsible for the introduction of clip filters for DSLR's and have pioneered the use of ultra thin filters for reducing aberrations in ultra high speed optical systems.

Avalon

Avalon

Italy has a strong reputation for well engineered products. Avalon Instruments does not disappoint. Specialising in low to mid capacity load range, Avalons mounts and accessories offer innovative solutions to mount design that provide unique advantages. An example being the fork based 'Uno' range that removes the need for excessive counterweights or merdian flips when imaging. Needless to say, Avalon products exude the finest quality and workmanship

Baader Planetarium

Baader Planetarium

Baader Planetarium of Germany has been producing fine quality accessories for the astronomical community for over 50 years. We offer a wide range of products from Baader where quality and consistency can always be guaranteed.

Berlebach

Berlebach

Berlebach is a German company, specialising in products crafted from Wood. Their range of tripods have an outstanding reputation worldwide for their stability and anti-vibration properties.

Chroma Filters

Chroma Filters

Chroma Technology is an employee-owned company based in Vermont, USA. Chroma manufacture the highest quality astronomy filters featuring durable hard coatings using single substrates of the best glass, eliminating the need for laminations. All primary filter coatings are applied on the front surface with anti-reflection coatings on the rear surface to prevent ghosting and to maximise transmission. Chroma astronomical filters are used worldwide in research and amateur applications.

Crux (Hobym Observatory)

Crux (Hobym Observatory)

HOBYM Observatory are a Korean based company. Their innovative approach is challenging the conventional astronomical mount market through the introduction of strain wave gear (harmonic drive) based mounts. These new products offer new levels of performance in extremely small packages.

EMC Astro

EMC Astro

EMC are a German manufacturer specialising in fabricated accessories for astronomy. Their two key product ranges are those of solar filters and high performance pier systems. All EMC products offer outstanding quality.

FLIR

FLIR

Teledyne FLIR designs, based in The United States, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes technologies that enhance perception and awareness. They bring innovative sensing solutions into daily life through their thermal imaging, visible-light imaging, video analytics, measurement and diagnostic, and advanced threat detection systems.

Fornax

Fornax

Fornax are a Hungarian company that has been developing and producing astronomical equipment for 20 years now. Their main focus is manufacturing astronomical mounts that offer high precision. The innovative Lightrack II is by far the most accurate travel mount available.

Gerd Neumann

Gerd Neumann

Gerd Neumann is a German company, who's goal is to offer you high-quality instruments, customised to your needs, yet affordable. Besides selling a range of selected products, they specialise in the construction of individual instruments and components that are tailored exactly to your wishes and needs.

GSO

GSO

GSO (Guen Sheng Optical) are a Taiwanese optical manufacturer. They are well known for their range of Ritchey Chretien telescopes due them being particularly low cost. GSO products are often rebadged and are the basis for many brands such as Omegon, TS, Astro-Tech, Revelation and many more. Hyperbolic mirrors used by RC's have traditionally been costly to produce. GSO have successfully combined mass production with good quality to offer reflective optics that provide significant value. Additionally, GSO have also been able to bring carbon fibre truss construction to mass production. As well as Ritchey Chretien's, GSO offers excellent Newtonian and classic Cassegrain optics. The latter make good use of GSO's expertise by combining a parabolic primary (Newtonian) with a hyperbolic secondary (Ritchey Chretien) to provide a scope that offers many of the advantages of the Ritchey Chretien but that offers better performance for visual use and planetary imaging. 

Losmandy

Losmandy

Losmandy are an American company that specialise in precision equatorial mounts and secondary systems.

Lunatico

Lunatico

Lunatico are a Spanish company, who's main goal is to make â€‹astronomy easy and safe for the amateur astronomy, with outstanding customer support.

Lunt Solar

Lunt Solar

Lunt Solar Systems, a Tucson, AZ based company, is the world’s leading manufacturing and sales facility that designs, fabricates, assembles, and tests solar telescopes and solar filters. Lunt has 20 years of experience in the design and manufacturing of various devices that are approved and ISO certified as protective eyewear and optics and has a long history of working with US government entities, including NASA and the US Air Force, as well as numerous educational institutions.

Moravian Instruments

Moravian Instruments

Moravian Instruments are a company based in The Czech Republic, devoted to crafting cameras for low light imaging in astronomy and microscopy, alongside the development of high-end electronics and software products for scientific, research, industrial and educational applications.

Optec

Optec

Optec is an American based design and manufacturing firm specialising in electro-optical products used in astronomy, atmospheric science and microscopy. They utilise state-of-the-art equipment and techniques in the design and manufacture of their products.

Pegasus Astro

Pegasus Astro

Pegasus Astro products are based in Athens, Greece and have grown over the last 10 years into a company with an excellent reputation for quality products and support. Pegasus specialises in products to support the functionality of your telescope system. Their telecope mounted hubs have become a common feature of many of our systems allowing a simple USB and Power Cable to manage a wide variety of other components.

Planewave

Planewave

Planewave Instruments are an American company that, for over a decade, has brought its unique brand of craftsmanship to amateur and professional astronomers with a full line of telescopes and related products which withstand the test of real-world (and out-of-this-world) usage.

QHY

QHY

QHYCCD designs and manufactures world-leading astronomical cameras, ranging from entry-level to professional, CMOS and CCD, front-illuminated and back-illuminated, specially crafted for amateur and professional astronomers worldwide.

ScopeDome

ScopeDome

ScopeDome is a Polish company that was founded in 2008. It is one of the world's leading manufacturers of fully automated astronomical domes for individual consumers, schools, centers for research in the field of astronomy and institutions popularising knowledge about the universe.

Shelyak

Shelyak

Shelyak Instruments is a French company that, for more than 10 years, has designed, manufactured and sold a full range of spectroscopes dedicated to astronomy, for research, industry, training and leisure. If you are just curious or an experimented observer, they have an instrument for you. They can also adapt these products, or even create new ones to your specifications.

Solar Spectrum

Solar Spectrum

Solar Spectrum are an American company with more than 40 years of experience. They are your source for ultra narrow optical filters for observing the sun, ranging from the professional to the amateur alike.

TEC

TEC

The Telescope Engineering Company is an American business that began in 1994 as a distributor/subcontractor of optics and optical materials.

Tecnosky

Tecnosky

Tecnosky is an Italian Company that offers a wide range of products from excellent value refractors to inhouse designed mounts. We have found Tecnosky to offer excellent after sales service and have no hesitation in recommending their products. All Tecnosky telescopes are checked and tested before shipping to customers.

Track The Stars

Track The Stars

The telescope mounts from Track The Stars have been designed to give you an optimal observing experience and to do the best for your telescopes. Easy to transport in two compact bags, fast to setup with no leveling or polar alignment needed. The TTS-160 Panther Telescope Mount is perfect to transport to dark sky sites to take long exposure Astrophotos with high precision. If you are searching for a premium high-end Telescope Mount read on and learn more about the highly transportable TTS-160 Panther Telescope Mount and the TTS-300 Mammoth Observatory class Mount