Monthly Meeting - December 2019

Meeting Report by Arshad Aleem

It was an engaging talk by the Carl Sagan of Pakistan: Umair Asim! The whole talk was a Q&A session where members of Lahore Astronomical Society were asking questions on any area of Astronomy. The talk included discussion about discovery of Asteroid and Solar System, Milkyway's own supermassive black-hole Sagittarius A* and the M-87 supermassive black hole. Concept of black hole, its Event Horizon was also described. What would happen to Solar System's planets and to their orbits if the Sun is supposedly replaced by a same massed Black hole. Life cycle of star and formation of Iron in massive star’s core were also shed light upon. Chandrasekar limit and Supernovae were also chattered upon. It was interesting to know that type 1A supernova never changes its luminosity and is a distance measuring scale for Astronomers. Q&A lasted a long time even after the session ended!

Current level of curiosity about Astronomy in people - specially kids - indicates a better future for Astronomy.

We should acknowledge the efforts put forth by LAST's Senior members and specially sir Umair Asim who make their telescopes, home observatory - and all possible resources dedicated for making Astronomy reachable for general public. After each meeting, interested participants view the Astronomy books available at the observatory, and can also borrow the books for limited duration.

Every talk is followed by a telescopic observation.. This time we looked at the moon with 10 inch aperture dobsonian telescope.

Thanks to our event manager - Âlpha Bhatti - for managing it well.

Mighty Martian Mysteries, March 2019 Monthly Meeting

Report by Mr Alpha (Event Manager)

The talk was given by Mr. Roshaan Bukhari and as always it was very informative and delightfully entertaining for all the attendees. Mars is a special interest for everyone, for some it’s our closest habitable neighbor for others just an awe of perspective.

The Mighty Mysteries that were shown and discussed how they were form really mesmerized the crowd, the highest point of the mountain in our solar system to the depth of the valleys, the size and width of the canyon range, tell tail signs of liquid flow, different deposits found and analyzed by the continuous effort of NASA keeping presence on the Red planet or observation in one form or another. The technological developments that lead to more improved and enhanced results and what the future might hold such ideas where exchanged.

I would say every single one of the attendees enjoyed the experience and left home with few topics on mind in which more reading would be triggered to feed the curiosity of Astronomer inside of everyone of us.