Welcome to the Apotel Optical Instruments web site.  Apotel was founded by two amateur astronomers with a desire to develop and create user friendly accessory products for binoculars, telescopes and photographic equipment.

Our background and experience includes the rebuilding of antique optical instruments with a strong focus on Carl Zeiss Telescopes and Binoculars. Since most of these classics have been out of production for years, this process naturally includes the machining of all missing, needed or replacment parts.

Our inventory includes:

A limited number of original objectives from Carl Zeiss, Jaegers, Edmund, Unitron.

Specialized optical accessories for binoculars, telescopes and cameras.

Optical stabilization devices.

Custom machined replacement parts for your vintage binoculars, telescopes or mounts.

New and surplus objective lenses, prisms, mirrors, optical tubing, focus units, lens cells and filters.

Vintage cameras, binoculars and telescopes as they become available.

Apotel offers accessories for the following Carl Zeiss Refractor Telescopes, including the Telementor, Telemator, Carl Zeiss AS 80 mm in both the 840mm and the 1200mm focal lengths, Carl Zeiss AS 100 mm Telescope and several of the Carl Zeiss APQ 100mm Telescopes.

We have recently expanded our product line to include our very own Binoculars and Telescopes.

Apotel Prism Diagonal for Zeiss

Telescopes

M44 & M66 to 1 1/4 or 2 inch

contact: Cj@apotel.com

 203-247-6666

Last Updated: February 12, 2008

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The SkyGazer is the most versatile wide field

binocular available on the Planet!

Apotel Skygazer 152mm Binocular

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Products
G uide S cope Rings
3" (Losm andy) D ove Tail System
V - (V ixen/C elestron) Dove Tail System
Z- (Zeiss/A stro P hysics) Dove Tail System
Baader H ardw ood Tripod & Flanges
Portable M ounts with Accessories
Counter weights
Astro T-2 System & Auxillary Parts
2" (S C -thread) Mechanical Adapters, Eyepiece Holders, Extensions
M 68 (Zeiss) Adapter System
Pentax/Takahashi & 3" Hyperion Adapters
Finderscopes, SkySurfer
Quick Release Finder Backets & Accesories, Tangent assemblies
Digital Adapter System D T-I/D T-II & M 68 (T-Adapters for afocal projection imaging)
A D P S Digital Eyepiece P rojection Telescope Adapter System for afocal projection
O P FA E yepiece Holders for classical eyepiece projection with S LR & D S LR Cameras

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