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Adventure • Galileoscope

Galileoscope Build-Your-Own Refractor

The first thing to explore is the inside of your own telescope.

The Galileoscope arrives as parts. Fitting the lenses into the tube gives you a reason to notice which end collects light and what the eyepiece does to it. Once assembled, the same instrument you have been studying can point out at the night sky.

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WHY IT CAUGHT OUR EYE

A sealed telescope hides the most interesting part of the lesson. This one lets you place the optics first and then see what that arrangement does.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Plan for a stable tripod for observing. Never point the telescope at the Sun. The photograph shows an assembled instrument and an earlier commemorative box, rather than a promise of special-edition packaging.

One original-design 50 mm Galileoscope assembly kit. Photograph shows it assembled beside commemorative International Year of Light packaging. That printing and any event inserts are not promised by the listing.