Moon Sighting & Islamic Dates - Issues and Solutions

Part 1of 9:
Video by Salman Zafar Shaikh, Ph.D
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Full video at google video:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8165645710855840584&hl=en-GB
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Motivation & Goals
Basic Information on Hilal Sighting
Calculations for Dark Astronomical New Moon vs. Calculations for Visible Crescent (Hilal)
Ummul Qura Calendar S the Saudi Hilal Sighting Process
Global sighting vs. Local sighting vs. "Saudi sighting"
Issue of Eidul Adha date
Sighting and Calculations are complementary (BOTH are needed)
Zone of Uncertainty (ZOU) in Calculations
"Naked-Eye" vs. Telescope Sighting
Group vs. Solo sighting
Summary, Conclusions & Action Items

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Moon
• Sighting
• Hilal
• Ramadan
• Eid
• Islam
• Muslim
• Hajj

[qamar0786]

Wa alaikum assalam - please view the remaining parts of the video, as well from the 'more info' link.

[tkassim]

asalam wa alikum, this was interesting