A Low-cost Telescope For Astronomy Education
The Galileoscope
My friend and colleague Rick Fienberg, who is vice president of Galileoscope, LLC , has a cool project he and colleague Doug Arion of Carthage College started for the International Year of Astronomy in 2009. It’s called the Galileoscope, and they have sold many, many of these easy-to-assemble telescopes at cost.
If you run a gift shop in a museum, planetarium, or other institution, you might want to think about stocking these useful and popular telescopes. When I first saw one of these scopes I was really impressed at how easy they were to put together and how well they allowed people to see things like lunar craters, the Jovian moons, the phases of Venus, and the Pleiades. These guys are donating all their labor and are only charging to cover the costs of the project.
The Galileoscope comes as a kit that takes only a few minutes and no tools to assemble. It’s perfect for classroom activities, group projects, etc.
Interested? Read what Rick has to say about terms and prices.
2013-02-28 07:49:05
Source: http://thespacewriter.com/wp/2013/02/28/a-low-cost-telescope-for-astronomy-education/
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