Katbeh's report for Safar Crescent
(1424 AH)
First Name: Tarek Mr./Ms.: Mr City: Amman Country: Jordan Zone: +3 Elevation: 1640 Institution: JAS Age: 25 Date: 2/4/2003 Day: wedensday Apparent-Sunset: ? Sunset-Location: Actual Instrument: Naked, Bin, Tele Visible?: Seen Horizon: Clear, Partly-Cloudy Naked-Visible?: Not-seen Bin-Visible?: Seen Bin-Magnification: 7 Bin-Diameter: 50 Tele-Visible?: Seen Tele-Magnification: 44.6 Tele-Diameter: 10 inch Tele-Type: LX200 GPS Notes: Two JAS members: Eng. Mohammad Odeh and Mr. Tarek Katbeh went to Alrajef mountain (220 km to the south of Amman), we arrived about 5 min. after the sunset, the horizon was clear but with some clouds. We were afraid at that time of not being able to align the LX200 GPS telescope on time, but Odeh managed to do that in less than 10 min!!! then the telescope was moving 2 the location of the moon, and we saw the thin beautiful crescent in the center of the field. After that we saw it by binocular but never by naked eye. Begin: Thursday 03 April 2003
By Tarek Katbeh. Islamic Crescents' Observation Project (ICOP), All Rights Reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any form without permission. For more information Send E-mail
