Ever heard of the word Celestron? Neither did I until i read a interesting article about the founder of Celestron on http://www.astronomy.com.
Celestron is a company that produces high tech telescopes for astronomical research. The founder of these telescopes is Tom Johnson who passed away on March 13th at 5:00 am at age 89. The loss of this amazing innovative man is truly heart breaking to everyone. This man allowed amateur astronomers to pursue their dream of being an astronomer.
Johnson, a electronics engineer, first started creating Celeston Telescopes as a part of his electronics firm, Valor electronics. He was inspired to make telescopes from his 2 sons. Finding no suitable telescopes for his sons he began to make them from scratch. Many of you would think this is incredibly hard, well it is and that is why I think Tom Johnson is remarkable. He first started with a 1960 6-inch reflector and then eventually grew to bigger telescopes and more sophisticated designs. Later on he created a new company that offered Schmidt- cassegrain telescopes in 4- 22 inch models.
As I said before, the loss of the man is heart wrenching and a great loss. Sorry to Tom Johnson's family, for their loss. :(
