Al-Khudairi: The conditions for seeing the crescent on Thursday evening are available..but

Weather of Arabia - The Saudi astronomer and astronomer Abdullah Al-Khudairi emphasized that the astronomical conditions surrounding the process of investigating the crescent of the month of Shawwal for this year are considered good for seeing the crescent, but the weather factors surrounding the investigation process may favor vision.

Al-Khudairi stressed that the state of controversy that we are living now was repeated previously, and the crescent was seen in more difficult astronomical conditions, with a younger age and a shorter stay period than the one we will live on Thursday. September, with a duration of 7 minutes, with an altitude of 30:1 degrees and an elongation of 33:3, from Jabal Al-Faqra in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah. Also 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.

Al-Khudairi explained, in a series of tweets via his Twitter account, that there are those who write while they are not academic astronomers. Some of them set a standard in his name, and found someone to organize for it, not knowing that his standard will not be achieved in the lunar months, either 30 days or 29 days, even if His companion looked closely and found that there would not be a month of 29 days, and this is contrary to the scientific arithmetic rule of the path of the moon and the sun and the legitimacy of the hadith of the Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace).

And he added: "The crescent's stay after the sun undoubtedly has an effect. The longer the crescent stays, the easier it is to see if the weather is clear, and sometimes it has a long stay and is not seen because of the weather, and sometimes it stays short and is seen."

Al-Faki Al-Khudairi indicated that the crescent stays “on the evening of Thursday, Ramadan 29 of the year 1444, corresponding to April 20, 2023 AD, after sunset at the Majmaah University Astronomical Observatory site in Hotat Sudair for 24 minutes, and the observation of the crescent depends on the factor of the purity of the atmosphere, while on the first Friday of Shawwal, mathematically, the crescent will stay 85 Minutes after sunset, and seen from inside the cities.