huh i didn't get what your saying a telescope is to make stuff look closer from the word scope
telescope
Look at it. Use Opera glasses or a Camera if you want to get closer. The best way is to use Google Earth and choose the Moon View. It's not as if something is changing up there.
A spy glass (telescope).
You do not have to look through the telescope. It just familiarizes you with the solar system : the three planets (jungle, ice, and fire) and the nearby moon.
telescope
-- A refracting telescope must have a lens, otherwise it's not a refracting telescope. -- A reflecting telescope can be constructed without any lens, but if you intend to look through it, then you'll use a little lens for the eyepiece.
Note that Galileo did not invent the telescope. He was, however, the first person to use a telescope to examine the heavens. Previously, telescopes had only been used to look at distant locations here on Earth.
looking at the stars moon and other planets
You will have to use a telescope to see Europa.
Galielo
he made phrases of the moon and first to use a telescope
Galileo