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Officina Stellare is a company that manufactures telescopes and accessories.

Origins and History
Born from the many years of experience of A&M and Astrotech Engineering, Officina Stellare is a company specialized in the engineering and manufacture of “state of the art” telescopes. The philosophy of Officina Stellare is to create products that astonish the professionals in astronomy for their level of quality and perfection, both optical and mechanical.

The Name and the Logo
In Italian Officina Stellare means “workshop of the stars”, to underline that the company designs and manufactures products for observation and photography of the skies, products of high technological content but at the same time built with the the care, attention and passion that only a craftsman in a workshop can apply to his work. The logo has its roots in the origin of observational astronomy. The star is a graphic evolution of the original star in the Pleiades originally drawn by Galileo Galilei in the Sidereus Nuncius (1610). Those drawings were a revolution in the history of science and astronomy.

Products
Designed for professionals of astroimaging, Observatories and Scientific or Educational Institutions, telescopes include:
 * PRO RC Series - Professional Ritchey-Chretién Telescopes
 * HIPER APO Series - High Performance Apochromatic Refractors
 * ULTRA CRC Series - Ultra Corrected Ritchey-Chretién Astrographs
 * VELOCE Series - f/3.0 Flat Field Astrographs
 * SUPREMO - High Resolution Maksutov Cassegrain