While February’s grand planetary parade might be behind us, March will still afford good opportunities to see many of the parade’s participants—especially Mercury. The solar system’s ...

After the sun sets on the night of February 28, the 29th day of Shaaban month in the Hijri calendar, moon sighters face west with a clear view of the horizon for a first glimpse of the crescent moon.

You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse ... when just a thin crescent is present, it is sometimes possible to make out the stunning effect known as ...

Face southwest about an hour before sunset and locate the crescent Moon. ・Look just off to the right of the Moon—Venus will appear as a tiny white speck against the blue sky. ・Use binoculars ...

This means we see the Moon’s phases from Earth as different shapes. Waxing crescent Moon – less than half of the visible surface is illuminated (starts as a thin, curved sliver) and getting ...

A total lunar eclipse overnight cast the moon over North and South American awash in red — although it was hard to see on Long Island due to the clouds and overcast skies. “It was hard to see, if you ...

when moon sighters around the world face the western horizon, scanning the sky for the delicate sliver of the new crescent. In Saudi Arabia, the Judicial High Court records testimonies of those ...

But what unites all Muslims is the observance of the new crescent moon in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. For instance, in Saudi Arabia, where Islam was first established by the prophet ...