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KARACHI: Pakistan’s Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco), which is often criticised by Pakistani scientific community for not being on par with its Indian or Chinese counterparts, sent two satellites in space from a launching facility in China this July.A surprise as it may be, one of the satellites launched the PakTES-1A, which was…
A Pakistani science enthusiast’s astronomical observatory has won a $5,000 grant at the National Science Week 2017, an initiative of the Government of Australia. The Southern Cross Outreach Observatory Project (Scoop) is a domed observatory mounted on a trailer and equipped with a computerised telescope. The aim of the observatory is to make astronomy more…
By: AFP/Bilal Karim Mughal After an interplanetary voyage of nine years, and covering a distance of approximately 3 billion miles, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has buzzed past Pluto in a historic flyby. At this historic moment, the spacecraft has taken the most detailed images of Pluto ever taken, which will enable the scientists to…
As Pakistanis prepare for the holy month, filling their refrigerators with Seher and Iftar essentials, and go lengths to ensure that their Eid dresses are ready on time, they are all fixated on one question: “Yaar, chaand kab hai?” (When will the moon be sighted?) Thanks to the ill-informed reporting of our media and the myth-believing…
1969 was the year, when the United States succeeded in landing humans on the moon – our closest neighbour in space – and safely bringing them back to Earth. The United States, being the most technologically advanced country on Earth, put that feather in its hat about 45 years ago. What was the condition of…
Whenever you are bored and have got ample spare time, what do you do? Read books? Watch TV? Go out with friends to movies or fast food? Well, Astronomers, on first priority make out to a dark sky location in countryside, so we can observe thousands of stars and feel the grandeur of the Universe….
Solar Astronomy Session at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology as part of World Space Week 2012 celebrations. Met officials of MUET and Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO). Open Day, many stalls were setup by different people. Water rocket competition, model designing, and others. We too setup the telescope at stall reserved…
Zain Ahmed from Karachi Astronomers Society informed me that his colleagues at Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Corporation (SUPARCO) were arranging an observing session at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET), Jamshoro on 9th October. After speaking to my fellow astronomer friends Zeeshan Ahmed and Amjad Nizamani, I decided that we’d show up…
While doing my daily tasks, I thought of unpacking my telescope after a long time, and do some observing thing. I also realized that this was the start of World Space Week 2012, so I became even more excited for it. Telescope was setup at 11:26 PM and I really had a hard time in…
2017 UPDATE: At the time I wrote this post, the Transit of Venus 2012 was just around the corner, and I had no resources to safely observe it, so I found this method and it worked just as fine. I and my friends had no adverse effects on our eyesights because we did take several…