Sigo pensando que el Galileoscope es una buena idea, aunque le falta el trípode para completar el equipo.
He visto el hilo del Galileoscope en CN, y en él dicen cosas como:
The idea is to make and distribute *hundreds of thousands* of these things and keep the unit price close to $10 US. The optics are pretty good from what I've been told from people who have looked through the prototype.
They are meant to enable people, especially children, to observe what Galileo did. Considering the entire planet Earth, there are huge populations of people who simply don't have access to more capable instruments. Remember this is a world-wide project.
It's my understanding that these are for educational purposes. This means, for example that if my astronomy club gets these, we will work with the people to assemble them and show them how to use these. And of course, part of that is to educate them, not to point the scope at the sun.
I personally think it's a great idea to put these scopes into the hands of people who may not ever get to use one.
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CloudyNightsTambién hay vídeos en youtube hechos con el telescopio ese, aunque de momento son pocos. En otro enseñan
cómo se monta el telescopio, esto ya de por sí es bastante educativo. ¿Cuál de los telescopios que has mencionado se puede desmontar fácilmente y además es acromático?
También decían en ese foro que la intención no era la de que fuese un "primer telescopio", sino más bien algo educativo.