Jun 2, 2025 · Saudi Arabia announced last week Hajj would begin on 4 June, after observatories confirmed the sighting of the crescent moon.

Nov 23, 2018 · Longer wavelengths are more red, and so, when the light from the moon has to travel through more atmosphere and undergo more scattering, the moon appears redder in the …

Nov 27, 2023 · One of those is the “beaver moon” – the full moon that will appear in the skies tonight. Here’s what we know about how it got its name.

Aug 31, 2023 · It is also possible that a blue moon could coincide with a lunar eclipse (also known as a “blood moon”) which, as the nickname suggests, can appear with a blood red tint due to …

Nov 15, 2024 · It will appears as different shapes in the sky depending on its ‘phase’. A full moon is when it appears as a complete circle in the sky and a new moon is when it is not visible.

Oct 10, 2019 · Set to be appear on the night of Sunday 13 October, the moon should look larger and more orange than a normal full moon, due the fact it rises around sunset.

Jul 23, 2021 · Sometimes the moon appears bigger when it is rising or setting – but this is actually an illusion. Photographs prove that the moon is the same width near the horizon as when it’s …

Aug 31, 2023 · Given that it’s the second full moon of August, many people also consider it to be a “blue moon”, an occurrence rare enough to have spawned its own idiom – but what does it …

Mar 27, 2025 · The Islamic calendar operates on the lunar cycle rather than the Gregorian calendar. Eid al-Fitr is at the start of a new lunar month and that begins with the first sighting of …

Jan 22, 2023 · In 2023 Lunar New Year falls on Sunday 22 January – its position is dictated by the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February, so this year’s date is one of …