LAHORE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
5th of July, LAST will help you learn from the best! Muhammad Ali, a celebrated astrophotographer from Lahore is giving a talk that will blow your mind! You will see how Ali captures truly incredible photos of deep sky objects from the light polluted skies of Lahore, as well as from rural and dark sky settings.
To confirm your seat for this free talk, please send a WhatsApp message with your name to Mr Alpha Bhatti (Event Manager, LAST) at: 03177125742
We are very happy to announce Pakistan’s First Telescope Company which will sell Astronomical Telescopes and all the gear that is required for Visual viewing and Astrophotography. Have a look at our website and contact us for any querries you have. Clear Skies!
In our monthly meeting for August, we will have a very special guest with us; Mr Rayan Khan! Rayan is a man on a mission to promote awareness on dark skies across Pakistan. We encourage you to ASK QUESTIONS from Rayan on this topic. Read on to learn more about our featured guest.
Rayan is the founder of Cosmic Tribe, International Astronomical Union Dark Skies Ambassador, National Node of International Day of Light, Young Person's Representative Of Royal Aeronautical Society Pakistan Division. He completed his masters in Astronomy from University of Karachi.
The wait is over!!! Our moon man AKA Talha ‘Moon’ Zia will be live with us to show how he makes those incredible lunar images we’ve come to know and love!!! We will also be taking live questions from our viewers!
Don’t miss it!
In this episode, we talk about what's up in the night sky for the month of July.
Astro Gear was the title of our July 2020 monthly meeting. We talked about different telescopes, finder-scopes, eyepieces, imaging methods and ran a live imaging session thru an advanced observatory setup, at Zeds Astronomical Observatory.
We talk to Dr. Aquib Moin to understand the process of radio astronomy and how someone can build their own radio telescope.
This Asteroid Day, team LAST hosted a livestream on Facebook sharing an inside look at how we find and track asteroids from Eden Astronomical Observatory and how asteroid images are analysed.
Happy Asteroid Day!!
163348 2002 NN4 is an Earth and Venus orbits crosser. It was observed at Eden Astronomical Observatory at Lahore with Celestron 14 and SBIG CCD camera. It was observed at around 17 magnitude.
Following is its orbit according to JPL website