وقال عضو المشروع السيد إبارهيما لو "Sighting the crescent by naked eyes was tried in Dakar Senegal at october 18, 2008, but it was not seen. " 

وقال عضو المشروع السيد بندر البطحي "لم تتم محاولة رصد الهلال في التاسع والعشرين من شوال" 

وقال عضو المشروع المهندس قمر الدين "This is a combined report from ICOUK members from different parts of UK. On Sunday 29 Shawwal 1430 AH  (18 October 2009) many of us have tried to sight the crescent moon (Hilal) of Dhul Qaidah 1430 AH after sunset, but there were negative sighting report received as most places were cloudy. We also have received negative sighting reports from East of UK (including South Africa).

Therefore, the UK Ulama (including Wifaq/Batley) have decided that the month of Shawwal 1430 AH will have 30 days and the month of Dhul Qaidah 1430 AH will start from Tuesday 20 October 2009, Insha-Allah.
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وقال عضو المشروع السيد سليمان غني "After Magrib Salaat at the Norbury Islamic Academy an attempt was made to sight the hilal with naked eye.

The 8 of us could not sight the hilal. Also there was a tall building obstructing our view." 

وقال عضو المشروع السيد عثمان دوكو "In spite of the clouds four of us attempted sighting the crescent, here in Bauchi, but we did not see it." 

وقال عضو المشروع السيد قمر الدين محمد "Clear sky, but new hilal is not visble and when I contact Ilorin,Abuja,Via Kano and Lagos it was reported that new hilal is not visible" 

وقال عضو المشروع المهندس قاسم بنكيح "The Dul Kida 1430 crescent was seen from Mrkiche station only by binoculars (20x60). The western horizon was partly cloudy and hazy. Four persons have tried to observe this crescent by naked eyes but it wasn't seen." 

وقال عضو المشروع المهندس مارتن إليسياسر "Clouds and haze prevented us from seeing the crescent on monday. The crescent was very low in the sky. Lag time was just 6 minutes." 

وقال عضو المشروع السيد علام سلطان "On my request, Today (Monday, 19 October 2009 = 29 Shawwal 1430 in Pakistan) nearly 300 persons (Members of the moon-sighting committees of our institute "JAMIA-TUR-RASHEED" + My friends + their companions) tried to sight the moon all over Pakistan at nearly 50 places but the moon could not be sighted. Generally the weather was clear. Chairman of central official moon-sighting committee of Pakistan "Mufti Munee-bur-Rahman" also informed me on my mobile phone that he has officially announced that Tuesday 20 october 2009 is the 30th shawwal and 1st Zul-qadah 1430 will fall on Wednesday 21 October 2009.
Note: After some days, inshaallah, a detailed report of this observation will be available at www.esnips.com/web/moonnewsofjamiaturrasheed
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وقال عضو المشروع الأستاذ دكتور محمد سالم البوسعيدي "The crescent was sighted by using a telescope. The western sky was hazy, as such we could not see the crescent through a finderscope despite being attached to the main telescope." 

وقال عضو المشروع السيد قاسم بهالي "The hilal was seen at Al-Khawarizmi observatory. The hilal was first seen by Meade LX200" at 19:00, after 15 minutes the hilal was seen by naked eye." 

وقال عضو المشروع السيد عبدالرزاق   عبدالعزيز إشولا "I was unable to to see the Dhul-Qidah crescent due to cloudness on 19-10-09 but my Colleque Imam Monsue Majolagbe and brothers were able to sight the crescent in a different locations." 

وقال عضو المشروع السيد عثمان دوكو "We searched for the moon today as well but we did not see it here in Bauchi. However our colleagues in Dukku and Gombe, in the neighbouring Gombe State, reported seeing it  with naked eyes." 

وقال عضو المشروع المهندس قمر الدين "The eastern horizon was totally cloudy for last few days. There was no waning (old) crescent see this months. However, as this the first report on the new ICOP website, I am including last months (16 September 2009) photo for test purposes!"