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Leaders in global
precision optics
KiwiStar Optics designs, manufactures, and installs everything from one off components to complete optical systems.
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.
In the press
Precision Optics News
Revealing the wonders of deep space
More great work occurring between KiwiStar Optics and the Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand (MSL) – New Zealand’s national metrology institute, all under one roof at Callaghan Innovation.
Over the MOON …
As a team we are over the moon about winning the design, manufacture and delivery of two collimator mirrors that form part of the spectrograph sub-systems.
Kiwi optics for a giant scope
A New Zealand company that specialises in high-tech optics is taking on the world. Earlier this year KiwiStar Optics produced one of the world’s largest astronomical lenses.
Revealing the wonders of deep space
More great work occurring between KiwiStar Optics and the Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand (MSL) – New Zealand’s national metrology institute, all under one roof at Callaghan Innovation.
Over the MOON …
As a team we are over the moon about winning the design, manufacture and delivery of two collimator mirrors that form part of the spectrograph sub-systems.