Moonsighting for Zul-Qa'dah 1425
December 12, 2004 (Sunday):
Hussain Khushaish (Moonsighting.com member) from Kuwait reported: Not Seen
In Kuwait on Sunday, 12 Dec 2004 I could not see the crescent. It was cloudy, hazy and dusty.
But on Sat, 11 Dec 2004, I could see the morning waning crescent with binocular only from 6:24~6:28 local time. The moon rise was at 5:41 & the sunrise was at 6:32(lag =-51 minutes). Moon age was around minus 22 hours, Elong =12.5 deg, Alt=7.27 deg. It took a long time to spot the crescent because there was a thick black cloud up to 7 deg and above it; the eastren sky was very clear. My friends could not see it.
Rashid Motala (Moonsighting.com member) from Signal Hills, South Africa reported: Not Seen
The moon was not sighted this evening, Dec 12, 2004 in S. Africa, although sighting attempts were made in several parts of
the country.
Javad Torabinejad (Moonsighting.com member) from Blacksburg, VA reported: Not Seen
Except for a small opening in the western horizon, the sky was cloudy here, in Western Virginia. I used
a pair of (7x50) binoculars to scan the horizon but I was unable to sight the moon.
Ruth Jeffery (Moonsighting.com member) from Houston TX reported: Not Seen
Despite completely clear western skies with very little haze on the horizon, the new moon crescent was not sighted by moonset time in Houston, TX on December 12.
Paul Burnham (Moonsighting.com member) from Chino Valley, Arizona reported: Seen
The new moon was successfully observed from Chino Valley, Arizona on December 12. Initial observation was at 1739 MST Using 15X70 binoculars. Moonset began at 17:43. Northern limb set at 17:45. The atmosphere was extremely clear with no clouds present in any direction. Only one very short contrail was seen during the 45 minute observing session.
Gulamabbas A. Khakoo (Moonsighting.com member) from Buena Park, CA reported: Not Seen
Unable to sight the crescent on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004. I tried till local time 5:05pm.
Gary Peterson (Moonsighting.com member) from Mesa Arizona reported: Unsure
I live in Mesa, Arizona and today I tried to see the young moon with binoculars. Sunset was at 5:20 PM MST and moonset was at 6:00 PM MST producing a lag time of 40 minutes. New moon was at 6:30 PM MST yesterday. When I looked I thought I might have seen the moon but was not sure. I could not keep it in sight to see if it was moving in the right direction as it went down. The horns did see to be pointing in the right direction. The moon was five degrees farther south than the sun which would have made any sighting rather difficult this far north. The moon was near perigee which would help.
Dr. Youssef Ismail (Moonsighting.com member) from San Francisco, CA reported: Not Seen
We could not see the moon tonight, Dec 12, 2004 as the weather was bad and very cloudy. Will check tomorrow.
Mr. Himy Syed from Fremont, California reported: Not Seen
I looked for the moon here in Fremont California, NO sightings as far as I could see.
December 13, 2004 (Monday):
Muhammad Nur 'Idil Hakim bin Maleki from Pontian, Johore, Malayesia reported: Seen
My ustaz (teacher), my 11 friends, my 2 sisters and I have seen the Zul-Qa'dah cresent at 7:03pm, on Monday, 13/12/2004, at Pontian beach, Pontian, Johore
Hussain Khushaish (Moonsighting.com member) from Kuwait reported: Seen
On Monday 13 Dec 2004 I saw the crescent immeadiatly after reaching the sightig site first with20*50 binocular at 16:42 and then by naked eyes at 16:46, that's 5 minutes before our local sunset at 16:51. The western sky was clear exept from a thin layer of black haze coming from doha power station.
Samy Khadem-Al-Charieh (Moonsighting.com member) from Berlin, Germany reported: Not Seen
I am sorry to tell you that we are covered by clouds now for several weeks. So this month no sighting reports from Berlin, Germany.
Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti (Moonsighting.com Member)
On December 13, 2004 (Monday) Negative sighting. We tried to perform moonspotting at the end of the 29th day of the preceding lunar month. However, at the usual site, there were two of us who could not sight the moon of Dhu l-Qa'da because the horizon was very cloudy [ghaym]. It had been already determined beforehand that the difference in setting times between the sun and the moon over the local horizon was approximately 1 hour and 3 minutes. We waited until its setting and prayed Maghrib there. I called another Muwaqqit from one of the Indonesian madrasas who confirmed that there, at Kediri, East Java, they had indeed spotted the new moon after Maghrib. This is sufficient to establish the Dhu l-Qa'da moon for us in the UK for tomorrow (the 14th of December) by default following the general rule in fiqh: whenever the crescent is sighted during the night in question in the East, its sighting in the West follows, but not the other way around.
Gulamabbas A. Khakoo (Moonsighting.com member) from Buena Park, CA reported: Seen
Sighted the crescent this evening of Monday. Dec. 13, 2004; here in Buena Park. SE of Los Angeles (California) local time 4:55pm. The top horn of the crescent was just after 12:00 o'clock and the bottom horn was just after 7:00 o'clock. The sighting was with naked eye and very clear.