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AG8 Telescope

Orion Optics UK

£3645

The AG8 is the 'introductory' model in our Astrograph range. Don’t let the aperture of 200mm make you think that this is a modest performer, for it’s aperture, it’s probably the best reflecting Astrograph available anywhere. If it’s not, we would love someone to correct us. Carbon fibre tube is one of the keys to the success of this ‘scope, stabilising the focal length throughout an imaging session and staying collimated virtually for ever once set up. Careful attention has been paid to the design of this and all of the AG’s in the range, exacting engineering and, superb optical components gua

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The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as ORION OPTICS UK LIMITED, number 05924501. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Not yet checked.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.