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observatory director, Salah M. Mahmoud, squinted at the smog gathering over the distant Nile.Curious
Egyptians look through telescopes atop a hill at the Egyptian National Research Institute of Astronomy
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official efforts to view the new moon on Aug. 10 in Helwan, Egypt.
His deputy, Ahmed Fathy, concurred with a sigh, “I’m afraid we’re not going to see anything tonight.â€
The two Egyptian physicists on Tuesday night had a delicate mission: They were charged with providing the
scientific imprimatur to the start of the holiest time for Muslims worldwide, the lunar month of Ramadan.
Egypt plays a major role in this ritual because it is the seat of Al Azhar, the world’s most prominent
Sunni Muslim institution.
According to the
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Koran, Ramadan, a month of fasting and prayer, begins on the first night that the crescent moon is visible
to the naked eye. For centuries, clerics and laymen jostled to spot the Ramadan moon first and often
differed. An area with cloudy skies or a different longitude and latitude might declare Ramadan a day or
even two later than the rest of the Islamic world.
The observatory’s
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telescope is too powerful for this sort of thing, so the staff lugged two reflective telescopes to the
parking lot facing west. Below a sharp dun-colored bluff stretched the brick and cement factories of
Helwan.Mr. Fathy pointed the larger of the two telescopes, a white double-barreled apparatus about the size
of a car axle, eight degrees south of the sun’s trajectory, toward the spot where he knew the Ramadan moon
would be lurking.