Telescope
A telescope uses lenses or mirrors to make faraway things look nearer and bigger.
The facts
- Shelf
- Everyday Things
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
How to play, in the Playground
Tap to collapse it; tap again to pull it out.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extend or collapse | Tap | ||
| Extend | Switch | On |
About it
A telescope uses lenses or mirrors to make faraway things look nearer and bigger. This is a sliding spyglass, the kind sailors carried: its tubes slide inside one another, so it folds up short and pulls out long, with a big lens at the far end that gathers light. Galileo Galilei used a small telescope in 1610 to see the moons of Jupiter.
The telescope starts pulled out, on a three-legged stand. Tap to collapse it, sliding the tubes together, and tap again to pull it out. With ✋ Hands-on on, pull the tubes out and push them back in by hand, one inside the other.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 36,000 at Low, and up to 200,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
