وقال عضو المشروع السيدة بسمة ذياب "We were 5 members of JAS trying to observe the crescent. 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." 

وقال عضو المشروع السيد حسين الشيخ عيسى " Rabi Thani 1432 crescent was seen with difficulty from Ammi Said insttitut by naked eye by other. The crescent was not seen by binoculars 07x50 (Poor quality). and there are observed juputer with the four moons, 18 persons were present in this observation." 

وقال عضو المشروع المهندس مارتن إليسياسر "The young crescent could be observed visually from munich, despite a lot of haze in the sky. Crescent age was about 21h and elongation from the sun about 9.7°. 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. After some thicker clouds had moved, i could see the crescent visually with a pair of 20x60 binoculars. 

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. I never saw it with naked eye. 

The CCD technique showed it for 10 more minutes, all the way to the local horizon, but i had to increase exposure by more than 100x compared to the earlier brightness levels. The haze sure caused a lot of absorption. 

More images and details on my homepage:
http://www.mondatlas.de/other/martinel/sicheln2011/maerz/crescent_20110305.html" 

وقال عضو المشروع السيد سليمان غني "The 15 of us attempted a sighting from the third floor of the Tooting islamic Centre in South London.

The Western horizon was cloudy. The Hilal was not seen." 

وقال عضو المشروع المهندس قمر الدين "On Saturday 5 March 2011 (29 Rabi-ul Awwal 1432 AH) many people from throughout UK have attempted to sight the crescent moon (Hilal) of Rabi-ul Thani after sunset. Special arrangements were made to observe from high locations as the first visibility started from the UK before most of the world. Unfortunately, none of the groups were able to sight the Hilal as most places were cloudy.However we have  received  reliable sighting news from Morocco.

Therefore, the Ulama (including Wifaq/Batley) have decided that the month of Rabi-ul Awwal 1432 AH will have 29 days and the month of Rabi-ul Thani 1432 AH will start from Sunday 6 March 2011, Insha-Allah.

The York Astronomical Society (YAS) group comprised of 30 observers, as follows. From Batley: Maulana Hasib Mayat, Maulana Habil Makda, Maulana Mohammad Ali Mangera, Maulana Hashim Sacha, Maulana Ismail Sacha, Maulana Abu Bakr Sufi, Maulana Amin Pandor, Maulana Imran Lunat, Qari Ismail Makda, Hafez Yusuf Qadri, Khalid Lakhi, Mohammad Patel, Yasin Munshi, Faryan Adam, Yahya Lunat, Moosa Ravat, Mohammad Bulbulia, Anwar Nadat, Ilyas Patel, Sufyan Pandor, Nazir Abed, Yakub Sallu, Yusuf Mayat, Mohammad Mayat and Vashiullah Bodiat. From York: Philip Holmes, Rupert Powell, Dawood Wilkinson and Qamar Uddin.

Note that we knew precisely where to look for the Hilal from the YAS Observatory as shown on the attached photographs.
" 

وقال عضو المشروع السيد ميلاد إرشاقي "On Saturday, March 5th, 2011, sunset time was 5:54pm and moonset time was 7:13pm in Oslo, Norway. I looked for the moon between 7:05pm-7:10pm near my home but was unable to see it." 

وقال عضو المشروع الدكتور جواد تورابنيجاد "Due to an overcast sky condition, no crescent sighting was attempted." 

وقال عضو المشروع الدكتور جون كالدويل "crescent horns orientation was unusual, being to the right
of the sun in azimuth" 

وقال عضو المشروع السيد علام سلطان "Today, on my request, nearly 100 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 more than 19 places but the moon could not be sighted, as it was astronomically expected tonight.
It was clear or little hazy at half places but other half places were full cloudy.
Note 1: Today (Saturday, 5 March 2011) the conditions of the moon were so defective in the half world especially in Pakistan that according to the all old and new criteria of moon-sighting, there was no solid proof in the history of astronomy to sight such a moon by naked eyes in Pakistan.
Note 2: Chairman of central official moon-sighting committee of Pakistan "Mufti Munee-bur-Rahman" told me on my mobile phone that as he did not receive any positive report of moon sighting from all over Pakistan, therefore he officially announced that Sunday 6 March 2011 is the 30th Rabee-ul-Awwal 1432 and 1st Rabee-uth-Thani 1432 will fall on Monday 7th  March 2011.
Note 3: After some days, inshaallah, a detailed report of this observation will be available at www.esnips.com/web/moonnewsofjamiaturrasheed
" 

وقال عضو المشروع الأستاذ دكتور محمد سالم البوسعيدي "It was totally cloudy we could see anything to the western horizon before and after sunset." 

وقال عضو المشروع المهندس قمر الدين "On Sunday 6 March 2011 (30 Rabi-ul Awwal 1432 AH) many people from UK were able to sight the crescent moon (Hilal) of Rabi-ul Thani after sunset (see attached photos). However, the UK ulama had already decided that Rabi-ul Thani 1432 AH will start from Sunday 6 March 2011, having received confirmed sighting news (Muhaqaq Ruyat-e-Basari) from Morocco." 

وقال عضو المشروع السيد علام سلطان "On my request, Today (Sunday 6 March 2011 = 30 Rabee-ul-Awwal 1432 in Pakistan) nearly 100 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 and resultantly easily sighted the crescent at 15 places in 3 provinces (Sindh, Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtoon-Khwa). Due to clouds or rain, there is no positive report from Balochistan.
It had been announced yesterday officially that Monday 7th  March 2011 is 1st Rabee-uth-Thani 1432 in Pakistan.
" 

وقال عضو المشروع المهندس مارتن إليسياسر "The crescent could be seen without any optical aid, but earthshine was not visible, due to haze and low altitude."