| The CCD technique showed it for 10 more minutes, all the way to the local horizon, but i had to increase exposure by more than 100x compared to the earlier brightness levels | The established CCD technique pinpointed the exact location and allowed to search the correct region of the sky visually, after having aligned on the sun and mercury earlier |
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| Note 1: Today Saturday, 5 March 2011 the conditions of the moon were so defective in the half world especially in Pakistan that according to the all old and new criteria of moon-sighting, there was no solid proof in the history of astronomy to sight such a moon by naked eyes in Pakistan | Crescent age was about 21h and elongation from the sun about 9 |
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4| I never saw it with naked eye | Unfortunately, none of the groups were able to sight the Hilal as most places were cloudy |
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| It had been announced yesterday officially that Monday 7th March 2011 is 1st Rabee-uth-Thani 1432 in Pakistan | However we have received reliable sighting news from Morocco |
Unfortunately, none of the groups were able to sight the Hilal as most places were cloudy.
| Crescent age was about 21h and elongation from the sun about 9 | and there are observed juputer with the four moons, 18 persons were present in this observation |
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| However we have received reliable sighting news from Morocco | From Batley: Maulana Hasib Mayat, Maulana Habil Makda, Maulana Mohammad Ali Mangera, Maulana Hashim Sacha, Maulana Ismail Sacha, Maulana Abu Bakr Sufi, Maulana Amin Pandor, Maulana Imran Lunat, Qari Ismail Makda, Hafez Yusuf Qadri, Khalid Lakhi, Mohammad Patel, Yasin Munshi, Faryan Adam, Yahya Lunat, Moosa Ravat, Mohammad Bulbulia, Anwar Nadat, Ilyas Patel, Sufyan Pandor, Nazir Abed, Yakub Sallu, Yusuf Mayat, Mohammad Mayat and Vashiullah Bodiat |
Note that we knew precisely where to look for the Hilal from the YAS Observatory as shown on the attached photographs.