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You will notice that evening has just arrived at Galileos' home observatory hundreds of years ago (an open window in Winter - just like I did at 10 years old with lenses from a broken toy binocular with spent Christmas paper cardboard tubes and the new technology of wonderous clear cellophane tape applied directly across the cold lense faces just because YOU COULD). He is about to try out a new thing, without any broken toys and without the wonder of new things like Cellophane, but the technology was young then. Tech2000 is about the science today. About the details. About the pursuit. We would rather not engage with the mainstream marketing methods nor the broad flow of import equipment, nor the fancy-flair of advertizing 'smoke & mirrors' with unrealistic WOW ads, and so we follow-the-nose of amateur and pro practicers. What comes next is not predictable, hence... engaging!
The founder, Dave Masters, came from the high-volume automotive sector as a senior product-development engineer for a large fortune-500 company. He began in the late 1980's to produce large homebuilt personal telescopes and soon discovered that high quality optics begged for higher magnifications. He soon discovered serious problems when trying to hold arcseconds of position manually on the Moon when searching arduously for the landing and crash sites of the spacecraft we had sent there. In 1990 he founded Tech200 to begin promotion of very accurate fine-motion drive motors and the special hand control computers required to allow tracking of Moon detail at well over 500x. With strong preference for no-align convenience (pop-out in the backyard then pop-home again) features. Why could he not have his cake - and eat it too!
Since then there have been nearly 2 decades of exciting and fun (hard work) that Tech2000 has engaged in with a wide assortment of technical projects and client manufacturing contracts . Drop some recognizeable names? -- Corvette, Harley Davidson, Duracell, Nasa Kennedy Space Center, Nasa Goddard, Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Comet Hale-Bopp, Ball Engineering (Tempel-1 Comet Impactor), high-speed ISDN routers, Deep-IR total-internal-reflection sensors... we have run the gamut with far more than that... but the actual products developed go far beyond this meager list. Into many dozens of innovative results in fact.
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