Sunday 22/June/2025 – 02:13 PM
The sky of the Arab world is witnessing at dawn on Monday, June 23, 2025, a rare and familiar astronomical event, as the crescent of the moon decreased from the Najdi chandelier’s cluster, known in the Arab heritage as the seven sisters, approaches an exceptional visual performance that culminates in the scenario of the chandelier’s stars behind the moon.
A rare phenomenon today
According to the astronomical association in Jeddah, with the approaching sunrise, specifically between 4:15 and 5:00 am, lovers of the sky from all over the Kingdom can from Riyadh to Jeddah, and from Medina to Tabuk, watching this astronomical meeting in the eastern horizon. The crescent of the moon will look low and delicate, embracing a small gathering of shiny blue stars that resemble sparkling grapes, swimming in the dawn of dawn.
This conjugation is not only what distinguishes the phenomenon, but the moon will pass in front of some stars of the chandelier and block it temporarily in a scene known as the stars, as the stars disappear one after the other behind the edge of the moon, before returning to appear from the other side. The phenomenon of concealment is one of the few astronomical events that requires accuracy in timing and depends on the geographical location, which is rare to appear with this clarity.
This opportunity is ideal for astronomical monitoring enthusiasts, especially for those who have a binary eye endoscope or a simple telescope, where accurate details can be observed, including the light of the Earth that illuminates the non -illuminated part of the crescent, giving the scene an additional aesthetic dimension.
In the rest of the Arab world, the phenomenon will also be visible in parts of North Africa and the Arab East, with a slight difference in timing, according to geographical latitude.
The chandelier, which the Arabs have always been inferred to change the seasons, is not just a group of stars scattered in the sky, but rather a real stellar cluster that includes more than a thousand stars, of which it is seen with the naked eye about seven stars only in clear nights.
