Galileo Telescope Modern Mount O

Click to see details of this mount. the 2427 did not have its final finish when the picture was taken..

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Eyepiece end
The telescopes were mounted on a modern refractor for comparing the images and illustrating the mechanical differences.

We have built a number of mounts to hold our telescopes. The one at the right gives a viewer a quick way of comparing the Galileo telescopes, all most, directly with a modern refractor of about the same power and with all the slow motion control of a steady mount.

The tripod is lighter than the engraving on the left but with the four legs it is very difficult to keep it from rocking so in the end they are comparable in steadiness.

Objective end. The 2427 telescope did not have its final finish when the picture was taken.

The tripod on the left is much more like Galileo had to deal with giving the observer a tactile experience similar with what Galileo had to deal with. It clearly demonstrates how good an observer Galileo must have been to log the kind of precise data found in his log book.

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