Poke Salad Annie Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 I am looking for a beginning telescope, and want to implement some of Corraleno's ideas from her post about covering astronomy without a boxed program. I loved the things she listed to use, and am curious about the Galileoscope. If you have one of these, would you please share an opinion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danieray Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 I have one and think it's a great scope! I like that it's a kit that gets assembled and that it has three different lens configurations. The 25x eyepiece is great for viewing the moon. My nieces even enjoy using it to look at far away earth objects (trees, etc). The 50x eyepiece is great for viewing Jupier & it's moons and Saturn's rings! You have to get used to using it's finder point on the top. It really helps find objects when you're using the 50x eyepiece. I've never actually used the 17x eyepiece because it's meant more as a lesson on how Galileo viewed stars and shows hot difficult it was for him. You will definitely want a tripod when using the scope! Another nice accessory is the diagonal kit that Learning Encounters is selling. Anyways, it really is a nice beginner scope! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poke Salad Annie Posted September 10, 2010 Author Share Posted September 10, 2010 Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I want to order something today, and as a starter it may work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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