Everyday Things20.2° S, 161.8° E
Telescope
A telescope uses lenses or mirrors to make faraway things look nearer and bigger.
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
How to play
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.
Nearby in the collection
Straight down
Through the middle of the world, the far side is Lungs, on Body.
Fall throughIt stands 4.8° from the exact far side, the closest of any Splash.