{"id":75197,"date":"2024-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailysouthafrica.com\/?guid=7a8e6a7d3b7bfd272aab19363aaea88b"},"modified":"2024-04-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T00:00:00","slug":"sighting-of-crescent-moon-of-choual-to-coincide-with-total-solar-eclipse-inm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysouthafrica.com\/sighting-of-crescent-moon-of-choual-to-coincide-with-total-solar-eclipse-inm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sighting of crescent moon of Choual to coincide with total solar eclipse (INM)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nTunis: The sighting of the crescent moon of Choual of the year 1445 of the Hijri calendar will coincide with a total solar eclipse – when the moon completely covers the face of the Sun – expected on April 8 ( Ramadan 29) at 7:21pm (local time), the National Institute of Meteorology (INM) said.<\/p>\n
The total solar eclipse will sweep across the Pacific Ocean, through Mexico, the US and Canada and end over the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n
The sighting of the lunar month of Chaoual, the first day of which signals Eid El Fitr, on April 8 after sundown will be impossible. It will visible on April 9 as of 8:56am (Tunis local time).<\/p>\n
The INM recalled that al-Ifta Office (Diwan al-Ifta) is the only authority entitled to announce the start of lunar months.<\/p>\n
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tunis: The sighting of the crescent moon of Choual of the year 1445 of the Hijri calendar will coincide with a total solar eclipse – when the moon completely covers the face of the Sun – expected on April 8 ( Ramadan 29) at 7:21pm (local time), the Na…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n