Astronomy Telescope: Searching Other Life Forms with it

Is there life on Mars? Or in any other planet in our solar system in general? If we were to use an astronomy telescope as the sole tool of determining the answer to this question, well, we can get a varying degree and significance of results, depending on the type of astronomy telescope that we might use for this endeavor.

Of course, if we are going to utilize the refracting telescope, then we all know the limited capabilities of this type of telescope. Training the scope’s tube to the skies, particularly on the moon, we might get a clear view and even details of the moon’s mountains and seas and craters in all their splendor. But find life on the moon using the refracting telescope? I doubt it.

What about the Hubble Space telescope? The most powerful astronomical instrument there is that’s invented in this planet can be an instrument to reckon with. But the Hubble Space telescope is more of a giant outer space photographic instrument that is commissioned to take pictures of the earth from space. Such a cool gadget that’s worth billions don’t you think?

Whether we use a refracting or a Hubble Space telescope, finding other life forms can be a daunting task that needs more than just these wonderful instruments but the collective effort of all astronomers and scientists as well as the appropriate research and astronomical agencies in the United State and all around the world. And we hope that one day we can finally discover the other life forms that have been around out there practically forever.

Antique Refracting Telescope at the Market

Friday of last week, I was sort of not very happy about not remembering to bring my digital cam. I went to nearby Jaffa flea market, and in small shop in one of its crowded corners I got to encounter an antique astronomical telescope. I know it was sort of a refracting telescope because it was just a long black tube, with lenses at both its ends. There were some metal ornaments of various shapes glued to the ends of the tube, which I thought was quite unique for a scope design.

Yesterday Friday, I tried going back, now with a cam on hand, but unfortunately the refracting telescope was not there anymore. Perhaps someone else saw it and took fancy of it because of the obvious fact that it is priceless, being an antique item. I myself would not care if it is working or not; I thought it was valuable. Lucky is the one who had bought it I thought.

Anyway, hopefully I would again come across another antique astronomical telescope at the flea market and finally have the money to buy it or at least the digital cam to have nice pictures of it to post here.