Frans Bruin's research while affiliated with American University of Beirut and other places
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The problem of predicting the moment when, after conjunction, the new crescent will become visible is both astronomical and physical. Although realized already by Ptolemy, the actual solution never did go much beyond the well-established Babylonian rule of thumb that the moon cannot be seen earlier than one day after conjunction.This paper first di...
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... Some considered the arc length of celestial degrees between the sun and the moon (elongation) at sunset. However, they could not predict the sighting perfectly because they did not consider the local conditions of the horizon at the time of observation, and they omitted the effect of changing the apparent width of the crescent moon and its relation with the brightness of the sky [4]. ...
