The Pakistani Night - A Priceless Gem

[Rutjuga]

Nightfall At the Shandur Pass:

By Amir Raja. Link to original image.

 

[Rutjuga]

Rakaposhi, Hunza:

By Galibert Olivier. Link to original image. Thanks to my friend Yaqub bhai for sending me this shot.

 

[Rutjuga]

Nanga Parbat by Moonlight:

By David Hall. Link to original image.

 

[Rutjuga]

Karimabad:

By Morten Knutsen. Link to original image.

 

[Rutjuga]

Moon shining over Hunza Valley:

By Muzaffar Bukhari on 8th January 2004. Link to original image.

 

[Rutjuga]

Shisper, 7611m:

By Galibert Olivier. Link to original image.

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

حوصلہ افزائی کا شکریہ. ارم؟ یہ کسی کرے کا نام ہے؟

I mean, is it a constellation? Or do you mean the Pleiades (Thurayya or Parveen in Arabic/Urdu/Persian)?

No Iram is the Urdu name of the Milky Way. Also a common girls' name but that's not what I meant. Here's a couplet for you:

جہاں تیرا نقشِ قدم دیکھتے ہیں
خیاباں خیاباں ارم دیکھتے ہیں
(غال&#1576

 

[ARSENAL6]

Masherbrum (K1), 7821 m, Pakistan:

By Rizwan Buttar. Link to original image.

Every Sci-fi tv show and movie in Hollywood will die for this image just to have it on thier films !

Why dosen't Pakistan invest a Telescope like the ones at Hawaii ?

 

[Rutjuga]

مہربانی جناب. اب تک تو ہم اپنی کہکشاں کو آکاس گنگا یا صرف سحاب کہتے تھے اور ارم کو جنّت کے معنی میں لیتے تھے.
فیروز اللغات اردو جامع کے ١٩٢٥ کے اڈیشن میں صفحہ ١١٣ پر ارم کے بارے میں درج ہے: شداد کی بنائی ہوئی بہشت کا نام. مجازا بہشت، جنّت.
بہرحال، بہشت کے معنی میں یہ ہماری کہکشاں کے لئے بڑا خوبصورت نام ہے.
غالب کا شعر بھی من کو بھایا. آپکا خادم کل ہی ٢٣ برس کا ہوا ہے.

The Milky Way is visible throughout the year, but its densest and brightest part (its center) is visible from March to early December towards the south (cardinal direction) from Pakistan. From May to October during some part of the night, the Milky Way passes right overhead for us, stretching from horizon to horizon. Even at a moderately dark site, you can see impressive detail within it then. For example, towards the zenith, our galaxy is highly structured when seen from Sonmiani beach, which is only about 43km from downtown Karachi.

This shot shows the Cassiopeia arm of the Milky Way (and the Sufi's Galaxy, M31) rising from the East just before daybreak in May. This part is informally known as the winter Milky Way. This is the view towards the south around midnight on the same date. Finally, this is the Cygnus Milky Way rising from the East around midnight in May. In October, this part is right overhead for us.

 

[Hasnain2009]

Great work Rutjuga

 

[Rutjuga]

Mountains of Karimabad:

By Morten Knutsen. Link to original image.

 

[Rutjuga]

Rakaposhi:

By K. Alam. Link to original image.

 

[Rutjuga]

Astronomers at Lake Kalri:

Karachi Astronomers Society: Home

Single 3 minutes and 13 seconds long exposure by Khalid Marwat. Link to original image. NO post-processing. The orange arc on the left is Mars. "KAAS" was "written" by Muhammad Mehdi in reverse script with a dim flashlight.

 

[Rutjuga]

Mango (pronounced maan-go) II:

Link to original image.

 

[Rutjuga]

Thank you Hasnain.