Monday 31/March/2025 – 04:55 PM
Dr. Ashraf Tadros, a professor of astronomy at the National Institute of Astronomical Research, said that the conjunction of any heavenly crime with the sun can never be seen due to the strength of the sunlight, and therefore we cannot see the moon during its association with the sun during the right at the end of the lunar month, because the moon shines with the sun and sets with it, so we never see us at this stage, but once the moon comes out of the state of conjugation with the sun, then the new moon is born What astronomical calculations emphasize.
Seeing the crescent
In response to the question of how and when the crescent of the new moon is born?, The astronomical calculations are very accurate to the degree of doubt and can be inferred from the astronomical phenomena for several centuries, following: But in order to be able to see the new crescent, then the conjugation must happen first before sunset in a sufficient time where we can see the crescent with the naked eye, then the astronomical calculations agree.
He continued: If the conjugation occurs shortly before the sunset, this makes the moon set quickly immediately after sunset and not allowed us to see it, and with our being certain that the crescent of the new moon was born and present in the sky, but we were not able to see it, continued: Therefore we see the crescent of the moon the next day larger and slightly higher where it stays for a longer period after sunset and we can of course see it easily and clearly Abstract.
He added that this matter can be likened to the clock, so if the sun is a scorpion, the earth is a scorpion, and the moon is a scorpion, saying: When the three scorpions apply together, then the right is, but once the moon comes out of this congruence, we say that the new crescent has been born.
He concluded: It is also possible to represent the age and the percentage of lighting the new moon with the number of seconds that the seconds of the seconds cut since its exit, which gradually increases until it is complete, while seeing the newborn crescent depends mainly on the period of its survival in the sky after sunset during the evening twilight, as its vision also depends on the purity of the sky and its free from clouds, dust and water vapor.
