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Crescent Moon Photos of Jumadal Akhirah 1442 AH

Foto hilal 1 Jumadal Akhirah 1442 H yang dipotret oleh Esmeralda Sosa dari Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentian pada petang hari Rabu, 13 Januari 2021 M (https://esplaobs02.blogspot.com/2021/01/la-luna-07-jupiter-mercurio-desde.html).

Crescent moon visibility map for Jumadal Akhirah 1442 AH on Wednesday, 13 January 2021. Parts of South America will have better chance to see the crescent moon.

As predicted from Crescent Moon Visibility Map for Jumadal Akhirah 1442 AH (see HilalMap above), on Wednesday evening, 13 January 2021, the very thin crescent moon was sighted from Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. Esmeralda Sosa took a picture of the hilaal (crescent) along side planets Jupiter and Mercury in the photograph below:

Photo of the thin crescent moon of 1 Jumadal Akhirah 1442 AH captured on Wednesday, 13 January 2021 from Rosario, Argentine by Esmeralda Sosa (https://esplaobs02.blogspot.com/2021/01/la-luna-07-jupiter-mercurio-desde.html).

Based on this global moon sighting observation, 1 Jumadal Akhirah 1442 AH starts on Thursday, 14 January 2021.

In the meantime, most other places in the world could only see the crescent moon on the following day, on the evening of Thursday as the photos below show.

Photo of the crescent moon of Jumadal Akhirah 1442 AH as taken from Perth, Australia on Thursday evening.

Photo of the crescent moon of Jumadal Akhirah 1442 AH as taken from Japan on Thursday evening.

Photo of the crescent moon of Jumadal Akhirah 1442 AH as taken from Mount Fuji, Japan on Thursday evening.

Habib bin Hilal

Habib bin Hilal is Editor in Chief of this blog and manager of the website: Alhabib - Coloring with Islam.