Sunday 24/Aug/2025 – 11:49 AM
The crescent of the month of Rabi` al -Awwal monitors this evening, Sunday, August 24, 2025, after sunset and the beginning of the night, low towards the western horizon, as it appears in a beautiful scene that provides an ideal opportunity for monitoring and photography throughout the Arab world.
Hilal Rabi` al -Awwal decorates the sky
The Astronomical Society in Jeddah explained that the moon had reached the stage of the central conjugation for the month of Rabi` al -Awwal yesterday, Saturday, August 23, 2025 at 09:06 am Mecca time, which is the moment when the moon moves from the west of the sun to the east, announcing the beginning of a new lunar conjunction month.
The phenomenon of Earth’s light
In its statement, the association stressed that with the moon away from the glow of the sun, its vision becomes clearer with the naked eye compared to the past night, provided that its height increases gradually in the coming days, with the increasing of the lit part of the monitoring, and the phenomenon of the Earth’s light, where sunlight is reflected in the Earth to illuminate the non -illuminated part of the moon with dim waging.
And with the continuation of the movement of the moon to the east in its orbit around the earth, its position in the sky changes daily, making it an excellent guide to locate the heavenly bodies in the coming weeks.
This period is also ideal for monitoring diminals dims in the depths of space such as galaxies and stellar clusters thanks to the darkness of the sky resulting from the absence of the bright moon moon.
Monitoring the crescent represents an opportunity to enhance astronomical awareness and understand periodic changes in the sky, in addition to training the eye to follow the heavenly bodies and document the cosmic phenomena that enrich our knowledge of the universe.
