{{short description|Telescope manufacturer}} thumb|TRAPPIST telescope and mount built by ASTELCO The company '''ASTELCO Systems''' is a manufacturer of telescopes, telescope control systems, domes/enclosures and related technology for professional astronomical research or public use. ASTELCO is located in Sauerlach near Munich and was founded in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.astelco.com/company.htm|title=ASTELCO Systems - About|website=www.astelco.com|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.astelco.com/company-facilities.htm|title=ASTELCO Systems - Facilities|website=www.astelco.com|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref>
The company built the telescope and mount of the TRAPPIST Telescopes,<ref name=":0" /> famous for the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system, a red dwarf with seven terrestrial planets.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eso.org/sci/publications/messenger/archive/no.145-sep11/messenger-no145.pdf|title=The Messenger no. 145|last=|first=|date=September 2011|website=European Southern Observatory|page=3|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> The company also built the telescopes and mounts for the SPECULOOS Southern and Northern Observatory, which are searching for terrestrial planets around ultracool dwarfs and brown dwarfs in the habitable zone.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/2019/3q-julien-de-wit-searching-red-worlds-northern-skies|title=3Q: Julien de Wit on Searching for Red Worlds in the Northern Skies {{!}} MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences|website=eapsweb.mit.edu|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1839/|title=First Light for SPECULOOS - Four telescopes devoted to the search for habitable planets around nearby ultra-cool stars get off to a successful start at ESO's Paranal Observatory|last=|website=www.eso.org|language=en|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> Other projects include the 60 cm Robotic Telescope BOOTES-5 in Mexico, the COATLI<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Watson|first1=Alan M.|last2=Cuevas Cardona|first2=Salvador|last3=Alvarez Nuñez|first3=Luis C.|last4=Ángeles|first4=Fernando|last5=Becerra-Godínez|first5=Rosa L.|last6=Chapa|first6=Oscar|last7=Farah|first7=Alejandro S.|last8=Fuentes-Fernández|first8=Jorge|last9=Figueroa|first9=Liliana|last10=Langarica Lebre|first10=Rosalía|last11=Quiróz|first11=Fernando|editor3-first=Hideki|editor3-last=Takami|editor2-first=Luc|editor2-last=Simard|editor1-first=Christopher J|editor1-last=Evans|date=August 2016|title=COATLI: an all-sky robotic optical imager with 0.3 arcsec image quality|journal=SPIE|series=Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI|language=en|volume=9908|pages=99085O|doi=10.1117/12.2233000|issn=0277-786X|arxiv=1606.00690|bibcode=2016SPIE.9908E..5OW|s2cid=118637410 }}</ref> robotic 50 cm telescope in Sierra San Pedro Mártir and the prototype for ESO VLT Laser Guide Star Telescope.<ref name=":0" />
The company builds classical Cassegrain and Ritchey-Chrétien telescope designs. The company also builds entire observatories,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.astelco.com/products.htm|title=ASTELCO Systems - ALT-AZ Robotic Telescopes|website=www.astelco.com|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> like the 0.8 m robotic telescope and 8m Lotus dome on top of the Mary Library (Turkmenistan) that is available for public use.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.astelco.com/projects.htm|title=ASTELCO Systems - Projects|website=www.astelco.com|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref>
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