Moonsighting for Muharram 1425
Impossible to see on Jan 20 anywhere in the world, except Polynesian Islands. We have no news from any Polynesian Island.
Hussain Khushaish (ICOP & Moonsighting.com member) from Kuwait reported: NOT Seen
In Kuwait, on Friday 20 Feb 2004, I among a group of 8 persons could not sight the crescent even with 10*50 binocular. The western horizon was cloudy and hazy that we could not see the sun the last 15 minutes before actual sunset.
M. Shahid Qureshi (Moonsighting.com member) from Karachi, Pakistan reported: Seen
We at Karachi University Observatory, started tracking
the Moon at 17:00 PST (one hour twenty nine minutes
before Sun set) when the Right Ascension and
Declination of Moon were (23 Hr. 13 Min.) and (-09
deg. 48 min.) through our 6 Inch Code’ Refractor
Telescope. At this point of time the Moons altitude
was around 30 deg 41 min.
At the local Sun set (18:29 PST) the altitude of Moon was supposed to be 13 deg 36 min. and Moon’s age was around 28 hours 12 minutes.
The bright sunshine and little hazy atmosphere was the reason we could not see the crescent till the sun set. Air pollution was at its normal level.
At about 18:30 the crescent became visible through telescope.
At about 18:45 the students at the observatory were able to locate very dimly visible crescent between two layers of thin clouds with naked eye.
Hussain Khushaish (ICOP & Moonsighting.com member) from Kuwait reported: Seen
In Kuwait on Sat 21 Feb 2004 I & a group of 12 persons could sight the crescent as follows :local sunset 17:42
- First seen by 20*60 binocular 17:35 (7 minutes before sunset )
- First naked eye seen 17:52 ( 10 minutes aftersunset )
- Last naked seen 18:44 (5 minutes before moonset )
- Last binocular seen 18:45 (4minutes before moonset )
Paul Burnham (Moonsighting.com member) Chino Valley, AZ reported: Seen
The new moon was successfully observed in Chino Valley. AZ from 1830 to approximately 1850 MST on Feb 21. A large hole in a low cloud deck coincided with a thinning of an upper cloud layer permitted observation for a significant period of time.