The Director of the International Astronomy Center in Saudi Arabia, Muhammad Shawkat Odeh, revealed that the majority of Islamic countries will investigate the crescent of the month of Muharram for this year, next Sunday.
Muhammad Shawkat Odeh indicated that the central pairing on that day is at 01:50 GMT.
Odeh added: “There is no possibility of seeing the crescent on Sunday from anywhere in the Islamic world, neither with the naked eye nor using a telescope, so it is expected that the Islamic New Year will be on Tuesday, August 10 in most countries of the Islamic world.”
In the context of talking about the position of the crescent on Sunday, August 8 in some Arab and Islamic cities, the director of the International Astronomy Center explained that the surface calculations of the crescent at sunset will be as follows:
– In Jakarta, the conjunction will occur after sunset, and the moon will set before sunset.
– In Abu Dhabi, the surface conjugation will occur after sunset, so seeing the crescent from Jakarta and Abu Dhabi is impossible.
In Makkah Al-Mukarramah, the moon will be absent 14 minutes after sunset, and its age is only 40 minutes.
In Riyadh, the moon will be absent 14 minutes after sunset, and its age is only 24 minutes.
In Amman and Jerusalem, the moon will be absent 19 minutes after sunset, and its age is one hour and 29 minutes.
In Cairo, the moon will be absent 18 minutes after sunset, and its age is one hour and 38 minutes.
In Rabat, the moon will be absent 24 minutes after sunset, and its age is 5 hours and 4 minutes.
Also, seeing the crescent on Sunday from all previous cities is not possible even using a telescope.”
In addition to the above, Odeh confirmed that “the minimum duration of Hilal that could be seen with the naked eye was 29 minutes, and the minimum age of Hilal that could be seen with the naked eye was 15 hours and 33 minutes, and it is not enough for the duration and age of the crescent to exceed these values to be able to see it.” The sighting of the crescent depends on other factors, such as its angular distance from the sun and its distance from the horizon at the time of its observation.
Source: “Previously”