Assembling and Using a Galileoscope – Adler Planetarium
The Galileoscope program is a grass roots effort to improve the quality of student telescopes. The Galileoscope is a great example of what the International Year of Astronomy partners want to achieve in astronomy; encouraging everyone to look up at the night sky. Viewing Saturn, Jupiter, and the Moon through a telescope is a transformative experience, and can be available even in the largest and most brightly lit cities. Check in with the Adler Planetarium website to learn more!
Very nice video! Very detailed. Already ordered mine (with a second one intended for donation).
Received mine yesterday. The model they’re shipping includes 2 eyepieces, a barlow, and a second set of o-rings. The included instructiona are not very explicit on these additional items. You’ll have to try the lenses in the smaller eyepiece by trial and error to see which way they should be installed. The extra o-rings (larger) can be placed on the outside of the telescope (you’ll see little grooves on the outside of the body).
It can now be converted to 3 different magnifications. Nice.
Does anyone know about taxes to be paid when receiving the kits? aren´t they duty free? please advise. Thanks
I received my Galileoscope yesterday (7-22-09). The optics are very high quality. They did it right. Worth buying for sure.
Important: The two telescope halves may not fit together all the way unless you rotate the tripod mounting screw a certain direction.
Dissapointment: Diagonal will not work. Not enough “in focus”.
Beginners: Image will be upside down.
We have our Galileoscope but the small lenses are missing. Does anyone know if we can order pieces? I don’t believe we received those small lenses that go in the end. I have 3 young sons excited to try this out.
Theyre packed in the same foam sandwich as the objective lens. Hold up the bits to the light and youll see one has six voids in thats where the lenses are.
They are packed together with the big lenses in the white foam. Make sure you check the package, they are easy to miss. I too thought they were missing, they are very small.
I am going to have to order another one. Our small lenses got thrown away by mistake I believe. We never found them. I wish I could just order the lenses.
On the galileoscope web site there is a pdf with instructions much better than the printed ones that come with the telescope. I had trouble getting the eyepieces correct and this video doesn’t really address that.
i put my foam into the box to throw out and when we looked for the eyepieces we realized they were in the foam
i got mine about a week ago and it has two eypieces.and also i have a problem when i look through my telescope its really blurry and i can only see the moon but the moon just looks like a white blurry disk can anyone help?
Yes: You have to use the telescopic part of it to adjust the clarity of the telescope, it works as the “focus”. Since it reproduces what galileo had, there is no way you’ll find an auto-focus on it
You can also see Jupiter with 4 little stellites (with the X50 lens – I was so happy)
Did you look in that little paper container. it’s very small. When you get the big lens out, ther is a part of the wrapper that contains the other small lenses…
I love this thing, and it vas very cheap! GREAT
I just saw Jupiter… somehere about 60 degrees to the right of the moon at about 2 am.. It looks like there are 4 circles with balls on it, it’s actually the 4 moons Galileo was able to see himself
My only problem: the image is upside down… are my lenses put up correctly?
yes!
mine too. on their website they said it was ok
thank you. I guess I’ll just have to ask my brain not to reverse the image coming from my eyes
I just ordered mine a couple of days ago. Can’t wait to see planets!
i just learned my family owns the planetarium
un hombre con barba blanca y traje siempre tiene razon
that’s normal with a refractor