Refracting telescope focus, results in a non-inverted and upright image. Galileo’s best telescope magnified objects about 30 times. Because of flaws in its design, such as the shape of the lens and the narrow field of view, the images were blurry and distorted. Despite these flaws, the telescope was still good enough for Galileo to explore the sky. The Galilean telescope could view the phases of Venus, and was able to see craters on the Moon and four moons orbiting Jupiter. Parallel rays of light from a distant object (y) would be brought to a focus in the focal plane of the
A Trip to the Moon (Chronicle) A Trip to the Moon (Chronicle) A Trip to the Moon is a 1964 television science fiction comedy film, produced as an episode of the CBS series "Chronicle". The script was written by Jonathan Miller and Robert Goldman, based on Jules Verne's novel "From the Earth to the Moon". All characters are portrayed by Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Miller, and Dudley Moore, who had first worked together in the revue "Beyond the Fringe". The hour-long show adapts the plot of Verne's novel to comment satirically on the Moon race then underway between the United States and the Soviet Union, juxtaposing