Hari Sumarsono from YMPIS, and ustadzah Namik, ustadzah Sirikit Eko Usdiani and ustadzah Mujiningsih as teachers at PPMI Assalaam | It took a few minutes for the moon to disappear behind the distant mountains before the actual moonset listed for Blacksburg at 9:22 pm |
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By this time, all ten of us had seen the moon by naked eye |
However, I could manage to confirm the position of the moon using enhancing technics and managed to image the New Invisible Moon, which is obviously not called the crescent moon | Thicker lower clouds made the sighting more difficult |
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By this time, our hope was to see the crescent prior to setting in a band of clearing hugging the horizon | The moon's horns were approximately at 3:00 and 6:30 O'clock 3:00;5:00;6:30 |
Crescent observation was done by members of the Astronomical Society of Brunei Darussalam.
14The size of the clearing was small and perhaps it was one of the reasons that I could not see the close-by crescent moon at that time | I could also see it visually through the telescope at 50x magnification |
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It was easily observed after Maghrib | Observation of Hilal Shawwal 1442 AH also conducted from Rowasiya Observatory by me |
The daytime new moon was captured by mr.