This is how you can build a working telescope in your own home

This is how you can build a telescope with simple objects you can find at home.

Video shows how you can gaze at the stars using just a cardboard tube, magnifying glass lenses, styrofoam, paper and glue.

You can even fit a mounting plate and put it on a tripod like a proper telescope.

YouTuber "The Mastermind" from Dhaka, Bangladesh, uses his skills as an electrical engineering student to make various gadgets.

This is the perfect way to check out the upcoming Lyrid meteor shower set to light up parts of the Northern Hemisphere this weekend.