Pakistani shares photos of Sun from new telescope

Pakistani Astronomer Shaheer Niazi has made an announcement that the IST has acquired a Lunt152 Hydrogen alpha solar telescope this week.

He tweeted that his team set up and tested the telescope that is the largest production solar telescope and currently the only one in Pakistan.

announcing that our observatory at IST has acquired a Lunt152 Hydrogen alpha solar telescope this week, which me and my team setup and tested. The telescope is the largest production solar telescope and currently the only one in pakistan! Attached are some of the views I captured pic.twitter.com/nwzqpgyAEJ

— M.Shaheer Niazi (@M_shaheer_Niazi) January 21, 2023

He also shared a few shots taken by the telescope.

announcing that our observatory at IST has acquired a Lunt152 Hydrogen alpha solar telescope this week, which me and my team setup and tested. The telescope is the largest production solar telescope and currently the only one in pakistan! Attached are some of the views I captured pic.twitter.com/nwzqpgyAEJ

— M.Shaheer Niazi (@M_shaheer_Niazi) January 21, 2023

He said that this is largest production solar telescope and the only one in Pakistan.

While appreciated and lauding the faculty of the space department, he said “all credit goes to the faculty at the department of space science who worked hard to acquire the funds and tackled the legal matters to bring this telescope to Pakistan.”

all credit goes to the faculty at the department of space science who worked hard to acquire the funds and tackled the legal matters to bring this telescope to pakistan

— M.Shaheer Niazi (@M_shaheer_Niazi) January 21, 2023

one more boiling image of the sun and sunspots plus dark filaments rising from the surface pic.twitter.com/eyC8ZmeTfk

— M.Shaheer Niazi (@M_shaheer_Niazi) January 21, 2023