Anything that can go wrong,
Bilal Will go wrong. Yes, it is the infamous Murphy’s Law. A remark made by a disgusted engineer took the form of an adage, which is widely used today in many…
2010
Cold Night, Mosquitoes, Stars
Ramiz Qureshi from Karachi was online. He told me that he was experiencing almost 100% transparent skies there. I thought to check out my portion of sky and therefore I…
Easy Guide For Collimating Your Binoculars
Hello all, most of the binoculars users experience the problem when their binoculars goes out of the collimation due to jerks etc. Now its not a big problem to solve…
Binoculars Collimation Problem
Recently, I have experienced a frustrating situation, which almost all binocular owners face, the collimation problem. And once the binoculars are out of collimation, they give stupid double images which…
My endeavours in search for Binoculars in Karachi
By: Ramiz Qureshi Binoculars are an astronomer’s best friend! A good pair can allow you to peak at thousands of stars, the moon, planets and just anything else in general.…
“Isn’t That Crescent Too Fat?”
By: Zain Ahmed You bet it is not! Unfortunately, almost every year many of our people are thrown into doubts about the Hijri date when they first see the lunar…
Pehli Ka Chand
Once again, Pakistan celebrates two different Eids as Royat-e-Hilal Committee sights their own moon and clerics of Masjid Qasim Khan sight their own. Ovais Mangalwala meets Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman of Royat-e-Hilal…
Chatkhara
Fri Sep 24 2010 6 pm at Chatkhara Umair Asim Hassaan Ghazali Irfan Ahmed M. Ali Dr. Farhan Ahsan Khursheed Maroof Mian and myself attended. LAST will conduct its own…
Back to Astronomy
By: Amjad Nizamani It was 10:00 pm, I was chatting with my friends on MSN and the electricity went off. I started to think, “What do I do? What do…
AstroFest at Lahore University of Management Sciences
Friday, 17th September 2010, 5:30 PM ============================= After reading the email at office, I left early to reach LUMS on time. At home I readjusted my honda 70 tapped clearance…