Friday, May 24, 2013

Thursday in Utrecht (Kyle)

Yesterday at the Sonnenborgh Observatory in Utrecht, we were able to look through a replica telescope that is similar to what Galileo may have used. When looking through it,  I gained a much larger appreciation for all of the discoveries that he made looking up at the stars. Just trying to get a really good look at the moon was fairly difficult for me. The view through the telescope was fairly small and also the slightest movement would throw off the view.

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  1. Even when we were able to get a good view of the moon, the level of detail wasn't as large as I would have expected to be able to make out the details Galileo found.

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  2. I wonder how they kept as steady when standing with the telescopes back then. They were really hard to keep in one spot.

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