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Leaders in global
precision optics
KiwiStar Optics designs, manufactures, and installs everything from one off components to complete optical systems.
KiwiStar Optics crafts the precision optics that are unlocking the universe at leading observatories. Helping astronomers capture and split starlight for over 50 years. We’ve made some of the planet’s biggest lenses for its best telescopes. Our reputation as a global leader in precision optics is built on consistent excellence and innovation.
What we do
Trusted by the world's best observatories
Large Precision
Optics
Spectrograph
Solutions
Astronomical
Instruments
Capabilities
Excellence
and Innovation
We love a challenge. We expect to evolve and invent with you. We know that great results depend on great communication, every step of the way. Our reputation as a global leader in precision optics is built on consistent excellence and innovation.
Our scientists, engineers and master opticians draw on decades of experience and a love of what they do.
Design
Integration
Manufacture
Experience
Case Studies
The Thirty Meter telescope
KiwiStar Optics successfully delivered on a ground-breaking and demanding project to manufacture, polish, and test the largest optical component ever produced in Australasia.
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project is a joint venture between scientific institutions in Canada, China, India, Japan and the US to build a 30m diameter Ritchey-Chretien optical infrared telescope.