2009 is the International Year of Astronomy - http://www.astronomy2009.org/
In honour of this event "a high-quality, low-cost, easy-to-assemble refractor kit" was developed. There is now one in the Library that students and faculty can sign out. The call number is TEMP 2094. For more information on the galileoscope - https://www.galileoscope.org/gs/ A lot of teaching material was developed as well, for more on that click https://www.galileoscope.org/gs/content/galileos-classroom
