How to Read the Moon Calendar for Seventy-Four Years, 2027-2100

اگلے ۷۴ سال، ۲۰۲۷ء سے ۲۱۰۰ء تک کے چاند کا کیلنڈر سمجھیں

Subject

Islamic astronomy

Language

Urdu

Length

2m

People asked him to explain the moon tables, so he goes through the Surat table for January 2027 column by column. The new moon falls at 01:54 on 8 January. That evening the Moon is 16 hours 19 minutes old, 5 degrees high and stays 28 minutes after sunset, coded F, so it will not be seen; the next evening it is 40 hours 19 minutes old, 16 degrees high and stays 80 minutes, coded A, so it will. The crescent is seen, he says, when it is more than nineteen hours old, ten degrees high and forty-five minutes above the horizon. The last column gives the Islamic date: 30 Rajab 1448 on 8 January and 1 Sha'ban on the 9th. The tables now run for seventy-four years, from 2027 to 2100, for about fifty-two countries, and can be downloaded from this website.