Now viewing: Long-lost Einstein telescope restored

September 23, 2008 By SHAWNA OHM , Associated Press Writer Now viewing: Long-lost Einstein telescope restored (AP)

In this undated photo made available by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on Monday, Sept. 22, 2008, an unidentified man adjust a telescope that once belonged to Albert Einstein, at the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Students and visitors at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem will be able to look at the stars through Albert Einstein's long lost telescope starting Thursday university officials said, after it was retrieved from a storage shed and renovated. (AP Photo/Hebrew University in Jerusalem)

(AP) -- Albert Einstein's long-lost telescope, forgotten for decades in a Jerusalem storage shed, goes on display this week after three years and $10,000 spent restoring the relic.

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Why no mention of the aperture or focal length in the article? Amateur astronomers want to know!
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