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Childrens Terrestrial Telescope
Children's Terrestrial Telescope:
Real working telescope, up to 40X magnification
Our Terrestrial Telescope from the University
of Cambridge range of Science & Education learning toys
makes an ideal gift for the more inquisitive child, encouraging
learning through playing and sparking the imagination. This
is a real working telescope, and great fun to use, but older
children who are serious about night sky study may be ready
for a higher performance telescope. We therefore recommend
that you also visit our
main telescope section before making your decision
- remember you can always call us up for further expert
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Terrestrial Telescope with 91cm
adjustable aluminium tripod and high definition precision
optics. This entry level refracting telescope has a 50mm
objective lens, collecting suffient light to be able to
magnify images up to 50X. The telescope stops short of
offering magnifications which are beyond the normal capabilities
of a 50mm refractor, which we support. This is a real
working telescope and, while it is obviously not as powerful
as other astronomical telescopes in our range, it will
enable your child to see the craters on the moon and other
secrets of the night sky, generating a lot of excitement.
The main difference between a terrestrial and astronomical
telescope is that terrestrial telescopes are fitted with
an extra lens which makes sure the image is the right
way up. Astronomical telescopes generally do away with
this extra correcting lens, since whether the image is
the right way up, or upside down, doesn't make that much
difference. Although this telescope is called an Terrestrial
telescope, it can also of course be used for astronomy.
Package includes:
- Terrestrial Refracting Telescope
- Huyhess zoom eye piece
- 6x25mm Finder Scope
- 91cm adjustable aluminium tripod
- Instruction Booklet & User Guide
In our opinion, suitable for 7 years old and above
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Telescope
Features:
- Real working telescope
- Magnification up to 50x
- Everything included
Perfect gifts to go with this telescope:
Home Planetarium
only: £ 26.95
R/C Planet Mobile
only: £ 24.95
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Famous Scholars: Ernest Rutherford In 1895,
JJ Thomson, discoverer of the electron, appointed a young
Ernest Rutherford as one of his first graduate students
at the Cavendish Laboratory. In 1898 Rutherford left Cambridge
and spent the next twenty years establishing a world-class
reputation with his pioneering work on the structure of
the atom. In 1919 he was the obvious choice to take over
from Thompson at the Cavendish, where he created an outstanding
team of scientists who furthered his work in nuclear physics.
Many groundbreaking discoveries emerged from the Cavendish
under Rutherford's direction, in particular Chadwick's work
on the neutron. In 1932, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton
first split the atom. |
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