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- Instance of
- refracting telescope
- Subclass of
- refracting telescope
- Named after
- Galileo Galilei
- Country of origin
- United States
- Official website
- galileoscope.org
- Image
- Galileoscope3.jpg
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The Galileoscope is a small mass-produced refractor telescope, designed with the intention of increasing public interest in astronomy and science. It was developed for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. It is meant to be an inexpensive means by which millions of people can view the same things seen by Galileo Galilei, such as the craters of Earth's Moon, four of Jupiter's moons, and the Pleiades. The small telescope has an aperture of and a relatively long focal length of 500 mm, for a focal ratio of f/10.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Galileoscope” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.