Tomorrow, the Ruet-e-Hilal committee will get together to discuss the Ramadan moon sighting.
At the Auqaf Hall in Peshawar, there will be a meeting of the Central Moon-Sighting Committee, which will be presided over by Maulana Abdul Khabir Azad.
Express News stated that a meeting of the central and zonal Ruet-e-Hilal committees for observing the crescent of the Islamic month of Ramazan will take place in Peshawar on Wednesday.
Maulana Abdul Khabir Azad will preside over the meeting of the central Ruet-e-Hilal committee, which will take place at the Auqaf Hall in Peshawar. The zonal moon-sighting committee will also convene there.
The unofficial moon-sighting committee has also been called to a meeting at the Qasim Ali Khan mosque in the province capital.
Based on the sighting of the Ramazan moon on March 23, the central, zonal, and local moon-sighting committees will declare whether or not fasting will start.
The ‘birth’ of the Ramazan moon will take place this year on March 21 at 11:13 pm and will be visible on the evening of March 22, when the sunset in Karachi will be at 6:43 pm, according to Professor Dr. Shahid Qureshi, a renowned astronomer and former chairman of the Department of Astrophysics and Planetary Science at the University of Karachi.
The crescent moon, he added, will set at 7:30 p.m. and will be visible for 47 minutes at the same time.
Remember that the moon is only 382,000 kilometers away from the earth at the time of sunset, when the crescent will be 10 degrees above the horizon and approximately 0.9% of the moon will be lighted. The moon’s age at that time will be 19 hours and 30 minutes.
According to Dr. Qureshi, in light of these findings, it will be simple to see the crescent on the evening of March 22 using binoculars from southern Pakistan, including Karachi and Gwadar, but difficult to observe such a crescent without them.
Additionally, he stated that if the first fast is kept on March 23, there is no chance of viewing the Eid moon on the evening of Ramazan 29, but if it is kept on March 24, the Eid moon will be clearly visible that night.
