Moonsighting for Dhul-Qa'dah 1424
December 23, 2003 (Tuesday):
Rashid Motala (ICOP & Moonsighting.com member) from Signal Hills, South Africa reported: Not Seen
There were no sighting reports for the moon this evening in S. Africa.
No sighting report from anywhere.
December 24, 2003 (Wednesday):
Zainal Abiden Bin Hani from Malawati Hill, Kuala Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia, reported: Seen
I and 20 students, 1 lecturer from National University, Malaysia, and 4 peoples from Surveying Department of Selangor, Malaysia saw the hilal of Dhul-Qa'dah 1424 H on 24/12/2003, Wednesday, from 7:51 pm to 7:57 pm in partly cloudy skies.
Haji Muhammad Amin bin Haji Arif from Mosque Bulatan Kg. Melayu Majidi, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia, reported: Seen
I saw the hilal on 24/12/2003, Wednesday, from 7:30 pm to 7:35 pm in partly cloudy skies.
Muhammad Razib bin Muhammad Aris from Limbungan Beach, Malacca, Malaysia, reported: Seen
I and 13 friends saw the hilal on 24/12/2003, from 7:40 pm to 7:45 pm in partly cloudy skies.
Muhammad Redwan bin Pandil from Kulai, Johor, Malaysia, reported: Seen
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I saw the hilal on 24/12/2003, from 7:30 pm to 7:35 pm in partly cloudy skies.
M. Shahid Qureshi, Project Director, Institute of Space & Planetary Astrophysics, University of Karachi
reported: Seen with telescope
We at Karachi University observatory Started to search for the crescent through 6' code' Refractor Telescope
at 5:00 p.m. (50 minutes before sunset. We set the telescope on the moons coordinates (Dec -27 deg. R.A
19 Hrs 15 min). Visibility conditions were not encouraging due to pollution cloud and dusty atmosphere. The crescent was barely visible through the telescope only 2 minutes before local sunset (5:50 p.m.). We followed the crescent till 6:30 p.m. when it faded into the polltuion cloud. The crescent was NOT visible to naked eye at any time.
Prof. Muneebur Rehman, Chairman Pakistan Ru'yat-i-Hilal Committe, reported: Seen
Moon was seen in other parts of Pakistan with the naked eye.
Hussain Khushaish (ICOP & Moonsighting.com member) from Kuwait reported: Seen
In Kuwait on Wednesday 24 Dec 2003, I sighted the crescent ( with a group of seven persons) as follows:
Venus seen at 16:44 (just at the arrival to site )
Crescent seen with bino at 16:55
Our local sunset at 16:56
Crescent seen with naked eyes at 17:06
Last sighting with naked eyes at 17:45
Last seen with bino at 17:58 (the crescent disappeared in the glare of flood light in the area )
Moon set at 17:58 .
Dr. Reza Pazhouhesh, Physics Department, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran reported: Not Seen
I tried to observe the Hilal on Wednesday, 24th December, 2003 after sunset. Due to the cloud and haze on the
horizon, I could not see the Hilal.
Taalib Abdul-Malik (Moonsighting.com member) from Damascus, Syria reported: Seen
Three of us sighted the moon outside Damascus Wednesday at 4:58 p.m. at an altitude of ~5 to 6 degrees.
Imam Azhar Subedar, from Masjid of Fort Myers, Florida reported: Seen
I saw the moon with another friend on Dec 24, here in Fort Myers, FL. It was very clear.