Progress on Creating the "Galileoscope” for the International Year of Astronomy

Details Progress on Creating the "Galileoscope” for the International Year of Astronomy Progress on Creating the "Galileoscope” for the International Year of Astronomy

May 2008

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #212, #50.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 40, p.246

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Our "Galileoscope” project for the International Year of Astronomy proposes to create one million inexpensive but high-quality telescopes that are in kit form and assembled by students. Like Galileo, students will build the telescope themselves and gain an understanding of how the lenses are used to focus light and form an image. Using slots to hold each lens, the optical design, spacing, and alignment are preserved to create a high quality optical system while giving students the opportunity to see inside the telescope and form mental pictures of how the light moves through the telescope to form the image.
The students will build and use their telescopes as the culminating event after participating in a variety of optics experiments and projects illustrating how light behaves. Each set of telescope-building kits will be accompanied by a comprehensive, durable, reusable experimentation kit on how images can be formed by lenses and mirrors. These kits were among the six modules developed and distributed nationwide in the Hands-On Optics project under a 4-year National Science Foundation funded grant.
Recognizing that improvements can be made to the current educational telescope kits available today, a team of scientists, engineers, and educators have been working on the "Galileoscope.” The optical requirements will be discussed as well as features of the design to make it affordable for mass production and distribution but yet to perform well enough so that kids can clearly see what Galileo saw 400 years ago. Progress on the optical design, testing, and manufacturing plans will be given.

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