When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
— Niels Bohr
Thanks to the much-heralded International Year of Astronomy, this much we know: Galileo used a telescope to observe the moon in 1609. But the inventor of the revolutionary resolutionary device remains unknown, and its early history is muddied by simultaneous discoveries and competing claims.
Galileo wasnt the first to have or use a telescope, but the first to put it towards the heavens and make use of it for studies in astronomy
The attached power point file offers a great explanation of the evolution of the early use of the telescope.
Astrophotography equipment
