Moonsighting for Rabi-al-Thani 1425
Hussain Khushaish (ICOP & Moonsighting.com member) from Kuwait reported: Not Seen
In Kuwait on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 I could not sight the crescent even with 20x60 binocular. The western horizon was clear exept the last 2 to 3 degrees .
Rashid Motala (ICOP & Moonsighting.com member) from Signal Hills, South Africa reported: Not Seen
The crescent moon was not sighted on May 19th evening in S. Africa.
Modoris Ali (Moonsighting.com member) from England (UK) reported: Not Seen
I have tried on Wednesday 19 May 2004 to see the crescent moon but it was not seen. On Wednesday 19 May 2004, the moon age was about 16 hours and not visible.
Javad Torabinejad (ICOP & Moonsighting.com member) from Blacksburg, Virginia reported: Not Seen
This evening (Wednesday, May 19th), the western horizon was cloudy in Blaksburg area (VA) and thus we could
not sight the moon.
Hadi Jaafar (Moonsighting.com member) from Fort Collins, Colorado reported: Seen
I sighted the moon with a 7*50 binoculars 25 miles south to fort Collins, Colorado in a fairly hazy sky at 8:45 local time; Horns between 3 and 6:30. The binoculars compass pointed towards a magnetic bearing of 289 degrees. I could not sight it with the naked eye.
May 20, 2004 (Thursday):
APP News Agency from Karachi, Pakistan reported: Seen
KARACHI, May 20: The Rabius-Sani moon has been sighted and the first of the new Islamic month will fall on Friday, according to an announcement of the Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee made here on Thursday. -APP
M. Shahid Qureshi (Moonsighting.com member) from Karachi, Pakistan reported: Seen
At the Astronomical Observatory, Institute of Space & Planetary Astrophysics, University of Karachi, we
started tracking the new crescent Moon at 18:30 Pakistan Standard Time when the Right Ascension of
Moon was 4 Hrs 48 Min, Declination was 25 deg 12 Min and the Local Hour Angle was 5 Hrs and 4 Min. around
41 minutes before the sunset. The weather conditions were un-helpful. Winds up to 15-20Km/hours were blowing from West (our direction of view), it was partly cloudy and extremely dusty. Humidity was around 60%.
It was only at 19:37 that we could see very thin crescent faintly visible through the 6” Code’ Refractor telescope about 26 minutes after sunset when the local Hour Angle of the Moon was 6 Hrs 11 Min.
Hussain Khushaish (ICOP & Moonsighting.com member) from Kuwait reported: Seen
In Kuwait on Thursday, May 20, 2004, I & 2 persons could sight the crescent as follows:
Venus seen with naked eyes upon arrival to site at 18:26; sun diappeared from sight at 18:29.
Crescent seen with binocular at 18:36 & our local sunset at 18:37. Crescent first seen with naked eyes at 18:51.
Last seen with naked eyes at 19:25.
Last seen with bino at 19:30.
Moon set at 19:56.
Samy Khadem-Al-Charieh (Moonsighting.com member) from Berlin Germany reported: Not Seen
I'm sorry to tell you that this time I couldn't make any observations because of cloudy weather.
Modoris Ali (Moonsighting.com member) from Cradley Heath (near Birmingham), England (UK) reported: Seen
The crescent moon was visible in England (UK) on Thursday 20 May 2004 about 21:25UTC. The crescent moon was visible for 1 hour 5 minutes. I and 4 Muslims (include my local Imam) have sighted the crescent moon for Rabi al Thani with naked eye. The Imam made a difficult decision at Isha Salah time and he said it was a second night moon to be united with other communities in England. The moon age was about 40 hours on Thursday 20 May 2004 in England.
Javad Torabinejad (ICOP & Moonsighting.com member) from Blacksburg, Virginia reported: Seen
This evening (Thursday, May 20th), we were able to sight the moon at 8:50 pm in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Muhammad Hafiz (ICOP & Moonsighting.com member) from Miami, Florida reporetd: Seen
The Hilaal was observed after sunset on Thursday, May 20th, 2004 at 8:25 PM at University of Miami (Medical Campus), Dade County, Florida, USA.
Ruth Jeffery (Moonsighting.com member) from Houston TX reported: Seen
The new moon crescent was clearly sighted in Houston, Texas at 8:23 p.m. on May 20 by two adults.