This weekend, I’m hosting a small workshop at the Community Museum in Gaithersburg, MD, where interested persons from 8 to 88 years of age can make their own telescope in an hour or two. We will be using surplus but high-quality achromatic primary doublet lenses as well as inexpensive eyepieces, along with PVC tubing and some really cool tripods to hold it steady. We will some basic optics experiments to help explain how these gizmos work, and will have spray paint and colored tape to decorate the tubes.
If you are interested, here is the necessary information:
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Make Your Own Telescope
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clockSunday at 1 PM – 4 PM3 days from now · 36–50°Partly Cloudy
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pinGaithersburg Community Museum9 S Summit Ave, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877
You will also see how various types of telescopes such as reflectors, refractors, and catadioptrics are put together and operate, using actual examples, including the type made and used by Galileo around 1609.
$30 City of Gaithersburg residents/$35 non-residents. Space is limited to 15 so pre-registration is required. To register go to RecXpress at https://online.activenetwork.com/gaithersburg/Start/Start.asp. It’s activity #49690.
For more information or if you have trouble registering call the museum at 301-258-6160 or museum@gaithersburgmd.gov
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