Ours is a firm that is involved in the design, manufacture, resale, and service of astronomical telescopes and related systems. Our credentials include support of mission critical aspects of the NASA International Comet Halley Watch, the Hubble Space Telescope Repair Mission, and a variety of Defense and Law Enforcement projects.
We sponsor a showroom and museum displaying rare new and antique telescopes, binoculars, and optics in Laurel, Maryland, U.S.A. And that showroom is the hub of the regional astronomical community - where our own astronomy club supports a variety of non-profit astronomical organizations as well as the profit and non profit television and radio, and print media, NASA, the U.S. Naval Observatory, and otehr Federal agencies with the loan of equipment and personnel for instructional and observation events.
We offer comprehenisive programs of instruction for the amateur and professional astronomical and nature watching communities. And we operate visual astronomical observatories at a private site in West Virginia, with increasing photographic and CCD capabilities.
URL: www.company7.com
Showroom: 14300 Cherry Lane Court, Laurel, Maryland U.S.A.
Hours Open: Mon-Friday 11 am to 6 pm, Sat 11 am to 5pm, Closed on Sundays, and U.S. Federal Holidays
Correspondence: Company Seven, Astro-Optics Division, Montpelier, Maryland 20709-2587
Telephone: 00-301-953-2000 or 00-301-604-2500
Primary Products: Astronomical and surveillance instruments, design, manufacture, resale.
Product Lines included: Astro-Physics, Carl Zeiss, Celestron, Santa Barbara Instrumetns Group, Questar, Leica, Motorola, TeleVue, Leica, Nikon, and more.
ECN comprises most of the European institutions active in cosmological research. About 30 institutions from 11 European Countries take part in the network, but these teams vary greatly in number and research interest, as well as in their organisational role within ECN.
This WWW site has been set up to assist in ECN's role of providing information and resources for the European Cosmology community. It contains information about the structure of ECN, links to institution and individual home pages of ECN team members, and news from Brussels about the TMR programme. In addition, we have a page upon which ECN members can advertise job opportunities at their institution, a page for advertising forthcoming conferences (as well as reports of past ones), and a resource page of useful links of cosmological interest.
After each session we write a report on the discussion, which can be accessed from this web-site. We hope that this WWW area becomes a resource for the whole SNR & ISM (including cosmic rays) community.
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