While the Supreme Court called on citizens all over the Kingdom to investigate seeing the crescent of the month of Shawwal tomorrow evening (Thursday) the twenty-ninth of Ramadan for this year 1444 AH – according to the Umm Al-Qura calendar – corresponding to 4/20/2023, the advisor to the astronomical observatory confirmed In Al-Majmaah, the observer of the crescents, the seer Abdullah Al-Khudairi, that the factor of clear weather is the most important condition for seeing the crescent of the month of Shawwal, tomorrow, Thursday. On Tuesday, September 14th, it lasted 7 minutes, with an altitude of 30:1 degrees and an elongation of 33:3 from Jabal Al-Faqrah in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah. And in 2016, the crescent stayed on the horizon for 20 minutes, and the Astronomy Center had confirmed the impossibility of seeing the crescent, but human vision took place, and 21 witnesses testified to “sighting the crescent” in Hotat Sudair, Shaqra and Tamir, indicating that the reference in determining the entry of the month is the competent court and its decision regarding that. He said: There will be an eclipse of the sun that will not be seen in the Arab world and will be seen in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Indian Ocean, and the crescent will move away from the sun and set after Thursday evening, the 29th of Ramadan, with approximately 24 minutes, at the observatory site in Hotat Sudair, and the seer must start observing the crescent from the 25th day. at the end of the month; It monitors and follows it from the east side, by determining its position and movement towards the sun. And that is before its sunrise, then he begins to determine the difference between seeing it each day and the day before it in time and place, then he monitors the sunrise of the crescent on the last day of the month (day 29), and estimates the distance between it and the sun,
Ibrahim Al-Alawi (Jeddah) @i_waleeed22, “Okaz” (Riyadh) @okaz_online