Lego telescope

I’ve been waiting a really long time to get my hands on the Research Institute set. No other LEGO set has attracted more mainstream media attention this year than 21110 Research Institute for a myriad of (mostly feminist) reasons, which I will not get into. If you want to dive into a well argued article on […]

Newtonian Equatorial Mount Telescope 150/750I love Legos, and I love just as much astronomy. How to combine both of them ? Firstly, I scanned the ...

https://youtu.be/64yC6ik6aiU It's easy to be amazed by the pictures captured by the James Webb Space Telescope while being completely oblivious to the sheer complex beauty of the telescope itself. For astronomer and LEGO builder @tonysmyuncle, the telescope itself represented a major leap in design and engineering, and he almost instantly fell in love with how

LEGO has far surpassed being simply a kids building block that sparks creativity, adults love LEGO just as much due to their nostalgic nature and the ability to build whatever… Source

Authentic Telescope Building Block Set

Telescope by JeongwonE #LEGO https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-25434

One of my favorite activities is to observe the night sky, it is a wonderful experience, either with the naked eye, with binoculars or with a telescope. That's why I built some LEGO telescopes that a family uses to explore the night skies, one Galileo-type, one Newton-type, a Schmidt-Cassegrain Computerized telescope, and a Classic Dobsonian telescope.

This is a 1:42 scale LEGO model of the Hubble Space Telescope. This scale is compatible with minifigures, so it includes two astronauts doing an EVA on a mission to maintain the telescope. The version of the solar panels is the current one, much smaller than the ones originally installed when the Hubble was placed in orbit in 1990. I made this model for an exhibition that ChileLUG is going to do soon in the Planetarium of Santiago de Chile. Background image from NASA…

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