The Pakistani Night - A Priceless Gem

[BelligerentPacifist]

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.
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حضرت بصد احترام عرض ہے کہ سحاب عربی والے ابر یا بادل کو کہتے ہیں۔ آکاس گنگا ہماری طبع کیلئے ذرا زیادہ ہندی ہو گیا!

جنابِ برادر آپکو سالگرہ بہت مبارک ہو، اور خدا آپکی حیات دراز کرے۔

 

[Rutjuga]

Belligerent, have you ever seen our galaxy in reality?

آپنے صبح صادق کے بارے میں تو سنا ہوگا؟ کبھی صبح کاذب کو دیکھا ہے آپنے؟ میں یہ واضح کردوں کے صبح کاذب ہمارے ارض البلد سے سال کے دس مہینے واضح طور پر نظر آتی ہے . . . بشرط یہ کے آسمان غیر آلودہ ہو

 

[Rutjuga]

شکریہ. اصل میں بات یہ ہے کہ ہماری کہکشاں بغیر آلات کے بادل ہی لگتی ہے. بہت سے شہری حضرت اسے پہلی بار کسی نسبتا نور آلودہ جگہ سے دیکھ کر سمجھتے ہیں کہ وو واقعی بادل ہے اور آپ انھیں بیوقوف بنانے کی کوشش کر رہے ہیں. فلک پر ایک اور چیز سحابیہ کہلاتی ہے. اسے انگریزی میں بھی یہی کہتے ہیں.
These interstellar clouds are called nebulae (plural form of Latin for "cloud").

ہماری کہکشاں کی دو پڑوسنوں کے نام بھی بادل ہیں مغربی زبانوں میں. یہ البتہ پاکستان سے نظر نہیں آتیں

 

[naumananjum]

no doubt Pakistan is beautiful

 

[Rutjuga]

The Broad Peak (originally named K3, known locally as Faichan Kangri), 8051m at Night:

By Dave Stamboulis. Link to original image.

 

[Rutjuga]

Eagle's Nest:

By Tariq Sulemani. Link to original image.

 

[Pukhtoon]

Karimabad:

By Morten Knutsen. Link to original image.

Is it Karimabad from Chitral ? If it is then its old name is

Bishgram .it is a heaven i was there back in 2006.We were there working in a PTCL tower.it is i think 3 to 4 hours drive from Chitral and you have to rent a Jeep to go there.The people of there is well educated who are living up in the mountains. And belive me when you go there you will feel some thing diffrent there.

 

[Rutjuga]

Is it Karimabad from Chitral ? If it is then its old name is

Bishgram .it is a heaven i was there back in 2006.We were there working in a PTCL tower.it is i think 3 to 4 hours drive from Chitral and you have to rent a Jeep to go there.The people of there is well educated who are living up in the mountains. And belive me when you go there you will feel some thing diffrent there.

That is the place. Thanks for sharing your experience.

 

[Rutjuga]

Mitre Peak from Concordia:

By Ian Oakes. Link to original image.

 

[Rutjuga]

Venus at dusk:

By Humayun Memon. Link to original image.

 

[Rutjuga]

Zero point, Karimabad, Hunza:

By Galibert Olivier. Link to original image.

 

[Rutjuga]

Nani Mandir compound:

Untouched shot by Hanif Bhatti.

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

Thank you Rutjuga sir.

 

[Lahore123]

It's true that higher ISO settings usually produce noisier images in most cameras, but that can be dealt with software especially designed to reduce noise during post-processing. Even then, ISO settings of less than 3200 are usually recommended - most cameras produce bothersome levels of noise at ISO 3200.

This doesn't mean that clean images cannot be obtained at ISO 3200 or even ISO 6400 with all cameras. This shot as well as this one are both unprocessed exposures at ISO 6400. Shooting at ISO 16500 is plain overkill.

Personally, I like stars as points rather than as trails. Moreover, the Milky Way shows its true appearance and structure only at short (>35 s) exposures and high ISO settings (1600 or higher) or tracked exposures at lower ISO. But if your tripod is tracking the sky, the final photo would usually not be what one would call a nightscape.

thanks brother as I spent part of my life playing with Photoshop etc so now I am trying to do work without using these softwares and I must say your work is amazing. If possible please publish your work on Google images thanks

 

[Rutjuga]

no doubt Pakistan is beautiful

It sure is, but we need to act responsibly to preserve and promote this beauty.

thanks brother as I spent part of my life playing with Photoshop etc so now I am trying to do work without using these softwares and I must say your work is amazing. If possible please publish your work on Google images thanks

Thank you for the appreciation. A few of the images are on our society's website: www.kaasts.com. Most others are on our mailing list and flickr.

Google image search does return our images. Is that what you meant?