Telescopes in Germany :)

 After visiting the Sonnenborg Observatory and reading about Galileo,  it was interesting to see more telescopes at the Deutsches museum. The first telescope that I encountered at the museum was just before the physics room on one of the many rooms in the museum. This telescope was built at Joseph Von Franchifer's Optical Institute in 1829. This telescope is the second largest refractor and was used to discover the planet Neptune in1845 by Johann Gottfrield Galle in Berlin. He was able to found Neptune due to the precise calculations of a French astronomer who had observed irregularities in the orbit of the planet Uranus.

 I also was able to see and actually use some telescopes in the astronomy room on one of the upper levels of the museum. I really like that they had small lasers on the other side of the room so that when you look through the telescope you would see the small laser and it was to mimic what it would be like if you saw a star in the sky.

Overall, it was a really good time at this museum! I am so glad we get to go back on Sunday. I can't wait to go on another great tour with our fantastic tour guide and learn about medicine and any other cool things that we find out on our own.