| I never saw it with naked eye | 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 that we knew precisely where to look for the Hilal from the YAS Observatory as shown on the attached photographs | I could see the crescent visually during its descent for about 20 minutes, till it simply got to dark to see, a very thin, dark-red line |
| We were on our way outside Amman, on the highway when we found a bridge so we spent few minuties there but the western horizon was hazy | 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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| The Hilal was not seen | The York Astronomical Society YAS group comprised of 30 observers, as follows |
After some thicker clouds had moved, i could see the crescent visually with a pair of 20x60 binoculars.
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