Galileo's Scope

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Galileo's Scope

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Check this out! Poor Galileo used a 35mm objective yielding only 15mm aperture and a focal length of 900+mm! And he saw Jupiter and its moons with it! Here we are, complaining about using a 35mm Bino!

http://www.imss.firenze.it/news/cielime ... ento2.html
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