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 public events, independent of KSS.
- Maroof will get the required signatures for registration after Hassaan gives him required papers.
- Umair will send LAST logo to Hassaan, it will feature a telescope.
- Outreach events in rich schools result in few questions from audience. Will try to do events in not-so-rich schools.
- Suparco will be asked to conduct event in Model Town Park instead of Iqbal Park.
- High altitude jet streams travel to East, not West. So no danger from India.
- 100 galileoscopes arrived in Karachi. 40 Suparco, 30 KSS, 30 Society of Sun.
- For distribution to institutions, not individuals.
- One will go to Museum of Science and Tech. to become an exhibit.
- One for Lawrence College Ghora Gali, one for Abbotabad Public School.
- Leo meteor showers will be watched at Hassaan’s place in November.
- Hassaan loves his 12×60 Skymaster. It is leaking oily stuff and needs some adjustments to prevent double vision. He has been very busy bird watching and identifying.
- His dog is no longer afraid of water and now there are two, not one dog.
- For asronomy, best bino is 15×70 and best telescope is 5″ minimum.
- Hassaan was about to buy a dob but its sensitivity to feather light touch made him back away at the very last moment. He will get an SCT goto like Omer’s, which is sturdy even with general public observation.
- Dr. Farhan will compare a high end 12×50 with a much cheaper 10×50 and decide what to buy. After that he wants a telescope.
- Umair and Hassaan have used binos on motorway to see patrol cars in advance.
- KSS collected s few thousand dollars as donation recently, after LUMS event.
- KSS wants equipment for a mobile telescope, to spare Umair’s C14. They asked him to suggest equipment within 1700 dollars.
- At LUMS, KSS people unpacked C14 carelessly, scratching IR and another filter.
- LUMS event did not collect enough donations.
- LAST needs a permanent address and business cards. Then membership will increase.
- Next meeting will be in Oct start, at Suparco event.
- M. Ali can easily arrange any outreach in Modle Town Park.
- He is not on the look out of some telescope. He and Hassaan are saving cash for telescopes.
- Ali Chawla is about to get married soon.
- Irfan Ahmed has a collection of astronomy videos. He wants me and Umair to do events in Lahore Grammer School. He says that a lot of stuff is available at Torrent.
- Umair will give a few audio books to Hassaan, to be heard on iPod during driving. During one book, Umair has to stop his car to listen, it was so good.
- Umair loved Okara and Shahdara events due to kid participation and questions. Flood of endless questions.
- Hassaan is working with US Aid. He said that rebuilding is not coordinated. Plans get stopped and remade.
- The food at Chatkhara was too expensive. M. Ali paid for everyone and took Hassaan by surprise. I made a remark which I regret. Im best off with my mouth shut.
- Hassaan dropped one green laser which exploded. I was happy as I wouldnt have to pay 1500.
- Questions Questions.
- Why was I living alone? For clean air, nothing else.
- Rent? 2000. Cheap.
- Why was I always wearing shalwar kameez? Dont have wardrobe at the new place.
- Was I looking into peoples homes with binos? No.
- Umair showed his Jupiter moon picture on his phone. Cool.
- Some light stuff….
- One student asked why dont stars have five pointed spikes.
- Hassaan will say a few words to his driver of the extra long limosine. Why didnt he pick him up from Chatkhara?
