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"Telescopes can be used for studying the night skies and identifying different stars and planets."
— Description[src]

A telescope was a device used for seeing faraway objects.[4]

History[]

They were essential in Astronomy,[5][6] and thus all Hogwarts students up to their fifth year (and their sixth and seventh should they have chosen Astronomy as an elective) were required to own one.

A Celestia Contemplor was a top-range telescope that was released in 1890; Ravenclaw student Amit Thakkar owned one.[7]

Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment sold brass telescopes,[3] for five Galleons.[1]

Professor Quirinus Quirrell kept a telescope in his office in the 1991–1992 school year at Hogwarts.[2]

A lunascope was a type of telescope invented by Perpetua Fancourt[8] which showed phases of the moon, countering the difficulty of using moon charts.[9]

Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes sold a joke version of this product: the boxing telescope.[10]

Behind the scenes[]

  • It is unknown if the telescopes used by wizards for Astronomy possessed any magical qualities that made them different from telescopes used by Muggles, although in Hogwarts Legacy, Amit Thakkar mentions his old telescope had magical aspects.[7]

Appearances[]


Notes and references[]

Astronomy
Astronomy Pottermore
Professors: Satyavati Shah · Aurora Sinistra
Astronomy at Hogwarts: Astronomy classroom · Astronomy Corridor · Astronomy Club · Astronomy department · Astronomy homework meeting · Astronomy reading room · Astronomy Room · Astronomy Stairs · Astronomy Tower
Astronomers: Aurora Sinistra · Copernicus · George von Rheticus · Perpetua Fancourt · Hesper Starkey
Objects: Astrolabe · Globe of the Moon · Lunascope · Moon chart · Orrery · Sextant · Star chart · Telescope
Planets: Jupiter · Mars · Mercury · Neptune · Pluto · Rogue planets · Saturn · Uranus · Venus
Satellites: Callisto · Europa · Ganymede · Io · Moon
Constellations: Aquila · Bartholomeus · Cetus · Crater · Dark cloud constellations · Orion · Ursa Major
Other topics: Black holes · Cosmic ages · Dark energy · Dark matter · Eclipse · Lunar phases · Meteor showers · Space weather · Wormholes
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