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Celestron

American telescope and optics company
Organization business Q1052893
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Summary

Celestron is a business[1]. Celestron ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (448 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: enterprise[4], company[5]
  • Founder: Tom Johnson[6]
  • Owned by: Synta Technology Corporation of Taiwan[7]
  • Headquarters location: Torrance[8]
  • Commons category: Celestron[9]
  • Inception: January 1, 1960[10]
  • Location of formation: Torrance[11]
  • Parent organization or unit: Synta Technology Corporation of Taiwan[12]
  • Official website: http://celestron.com[13], https://celestron.fr[14]
  • Product or material produced: telescope[15]
  • Legal form: limited liability company[16]
  • Social media followers: 15,461[17], 17,627[18], 19,188[19]
  • P14750: 0F0C-8B4F-6241-8D24-C5EB[20]

Why It Matters

Celestron has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Celestron is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

business United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14h ago · Epsiloniclad · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → business, enterprise, company
    Wikidata description → American telescope and optics company
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: company"
  2. 13d ago · Erebuspenguin · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 18
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bn', 'ca', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'pl', 'p
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Official website: https://celestron.fr"
  3. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 0F0C-8B4F-6241-8D24-C5EB
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 0F0C-8B4F-6241-8D24-C5EB, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
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