2024-02-21 09:01:00
11:01 AM Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Books – Masrawy:
Dr. Jad Al-Qadi, President of the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research and President of the Arab Association for Astronomy and Space Sciences, announced that the beginning of the month of Ramadan 1445 astronomically is Monday, March 11, 2024.
The Dean of the Astronomy Institute said that according to astronomical calculations carried out by the Institute’s Sun Research Laboratory headed by Dr. Yasser Abdel Hadi, the crescent of the month of Ramadan for the year 1445 AH will be born immediately following the conjunction occurs at exactly 11:02 AM local Cairo time on Sunday 29 Shaban 1445 AH corresponding to 3/10/2024 AD (Vision Day).
The judge explained that the new crescent remains for 12 minutes following sunset on that day of sighting in Mecca and in Cairo for 14 minutes, and in the rest of Egypt’s governorates the new crescent remains in their skies for periods ranging between 13-15 minutes, while in Arab and Islamic capitals and cities, the new crescent remains. After sunset that day for periods ranging from 4 to 22 minutes.
He pointed out that following reviewing the circumstances of sighting the crescent and the phases of the moon in the city of Cairo and the governorates of the Arab Republic of Egypt and some Arab, Islamic and Western capitals on the day the crescent was sighted, the blessed Eid al-Fitr is Wednesday, April 10, 2024, and its prayers are at 5:59 am in the city of Cairo.
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