Thursday 11/Sep/2025 – 11:21 am
The sky of Makkah Al -Mukarramah at dawn on Friday, September 12, 2025, is witnessing a rare astronomical phenomenon represented in the perpendicular to the humiliating moon decreasing on the honorable Kaaba, and perpendicularity occurs at 3:50 am local time, that is, about an hour before the dawn call to prayer.
The moon was perpendicular to the Kaaba, at dawn Friday, September 12
According to the astronomical association in Jeddah, specialists explained that the moon will reach at that time the Makkah latitude and its demise line with a height that approaches ninety degrees above the horizon, while it is 76%lit, and it separates it from the sun an angle of elongation of one hundred and twenty degrees, while a distance of approximately three hundred and sixty -six thousand kilometers away from the earth.
They pointed out that the phenomenon coincides with the possibility of watching Jupiter in the east and Saturn on the west, along with a group of bright stars, which gives the scene an additional aesthetic dimension.
Astronomers emphasize that such a orthopedic is a practical test of astronomical calculations of the movement of heavenly bodies, as mathematical expectations can be compared to the results observed on the ground.
Scientists point out that this phenomenon offers a practical proof of the spherical earth, as the orthopedic does not appear completely except in one location, Makkah Al -Mukarramah, while the height of the moon differs above the horizon when it is monitored from other regions.
It is noteworthy that the mile of the moon during its monthly movement around the Earth changes about five degrees from the zodiac, which makes the repeated orthogonal with the Holy Kaaba rare, but its date can be determined with a precision of approximately half a degree.
