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A poor mans refractor telescope

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# About the project

There's something truly exciting about building your own telescope. Maybe it's the joy of handling lenses, experience how the lens magnify, and then putting the telescope together to see faraway objects. It's also an opportunity to understand the conditions that astronomers faced in the 15th century.

This description outlines how you can construct a telescope on par with the instruments that Galileo and Kepler worked with. Below are the the instruction how to build this telescope, followed by a brief explanation of how a telescope gathers light.

# Introduction

There's something truly exciting about building your own telescope. Maybe it's the excitement of playing with optics and experience how the lens magnifies faraway objects. It's also an opportunity to understand the conditions that astronomers faced in the 15th century.

This description outlines how you can construct a telescope on par with the instruments that Galileo and Kepler built and used.