Category: Lessons & Resources
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Oat-a-Scope
Motivation Newtonian telescopes are the simplest of mirrored telescopes, and are the perfect project for teaching magnification, mirrors vs. lenses, and astronomy concepts. Typically these telescopes have a price floor of about $80, check out my personal build. However that isn’t realistic for a class of 20 students. So I made the Oat-a-Scope! A Newtonian…
