Working Telescope MOC

[greg3]

Hi

 In recent months, I've started getting back into stargazing and thought I'd see if I could make a working telescope out of LEGO... and this is the result! 

 Untitled by g.nat, on Flickr

Inside the telescope, 2 minifigure magnifying glasses create a magnified and inverted image just like the real thing (just not with quite the same range!)

Untitled by g.nat, on Flickr

Untitled by g.nat, on Flickr

The build also includes a section of “night sky” to explore. This includes a number of celestial bodies, both brick built - including a giant “space turtle” (a nod to the Discworld books) and a lost astronaut (perhaps he's looking for a Spaceship, spaceship SPACESHIP!!!) and some using actual images of astronomical objects (my favourite is Mimas… one of Saturn’s moons that looks like the Death Star “That’s no space station… it’s a moon!”)

Untitled by g.nat, on Flickr

So far the MOC has proved a big hit with the children I teach and so I've also decided to post it LEGO Ideas as I think this’d make a nice official LEGO set ( it's great to look at/play with, it's educational and hopefully can inspire people to look at and learn about the actual night sky!) Any support would be greatly appreciated... thanks!

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/b1f84187-f371-414a-8f17-9509ed428eec

Edited January 9, 2022 by greg3

[Feuer Zug]

Interesting concept. The fact that you got it to do some level of magnification is impressive and adds to the model. Best of luck with Ideas.