![]() After all, he was able to make accurate astronomic observations with his telescope and you can too! 400 years later the scientific community still finds inspiration from Galileo’s work. Of course today our telescopes are far more advanced, but considering most people in that era still believed the Sun orbited the Earth, his invention was undeniably profound. The cardboard lens holder should sit right on top of the tube, but if you want to be fancy you can trim it so it fits inside the tube.Īfter the glue dries, slide the tubes together with the lenses on opposite sides and you have yourself a functioning telescope! Adjust the focus by sliding the tubes together or apart.īuild your own Galileo Telescope Background īack in 1609 Galileo’s two-lens refractive telescope was groundbreaking technology. Hot glue the lens holder to the end of each tube (one lens per tube). The lens holders should be the same size as the diameter of the each tube respectively. Next use the larger tube to trace a circle around the 1.5’’ lens on the cardboard and cut it out using an exacto-knife.ĭo the same thing with the smaller tube and the 3/4’’ lens. Trace a circle slightly smaller than the lens on a piece of corrugated cardboard and cut it out with the exacto-knifeīetween the two layers of the cardboard, the lens should fit perfectly and pop right in. Paint and decorate each tube however you would like. Two 10” cardboard tubes, one smaller in diameter to fit inside the other (you can cut one length wise and tape it to make it fit inside the other) Here’s an example!įocal length of light-gathering lens = 15 cmĪ 1.5’’ diameter double convex lense with a focal length between 8’’-14’’ (light gathering)Ī 3/4’’ diameter double convex lense with a focal length between 2”-4” (eye piece)Ģ squares of approximately 5”x 5” corrugated cardboard The magnification of the telescope can be calculated by dividing the focal length of the light-gathering lens by the focal length of the eyepiece lens. The larger the aperture, the more light it can collect and incorporate into the image you can see through the telescope. The light gathering lens is responsible for the brightness of the image. Since this system uses two converging lenses, the eyepiece makes the diverging rays from the objective lens’ focal point parallel again so we can see it with our eye. The eyepiece gathers the light that passes this focal point, magnifying an inverted image and allowing us to observe it with a closer perspective. ![]() ![]() The lens also creates a focused image in between it and the eyepiece lens. The light gathering lens at the far end of the telescope collects parallel light rays being emitted or reflecting off an object. This bending of light helps a two-lens system zoom in on distant objects. This is because as light moves from one media to another, like from air to glass, it bends, or as us scientists like to say, it refracts. A telescope that uses two lenses to gather and focus light then magnifies the inverted image is called a refractor telescope. ![]()
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