Inspecting My Telescope

This is another photograph from Astronomy Day. I Loved watching the children who visited look at my telescopes. In this photograph, two sisters were examining my home-made Newtonian scope. What makes it a "Newtonian" is that it doesn't use a lens to make the image - it uses a mirror, in the bottom of the square wooden tube on the left hand side of the photo. They were laughing because when they looked in, they were not expecting to see reflections of themselves from within the telescope.