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It’s a possibility for them because they’re counting Saturday as the 28th of Shabban, I think.
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If the moon has not been sighted on friday night then sunday is first of ramadan according to my local masajid in Montreal.
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apparently the moon hasnt been sighted...so sun inshAllah
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It seems if there was a parial Solar Eclipse on Friday Sept 22. over Brazil and South America, then it would not be possible to see the Cresent on Friday Night.
On Friday, 2006 September 22, an annular eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses half the Earth. The path of the Moon’s antumbral shadow begins in northern South America and crosses the South Atlantic with no further landfall. A partial eclipse will be seen from a much larger region including South America, the eastern Caribbean, western Africa, and Antarctica (Figure 5 [OH2006]). The path of the annular eclipse begins in Guyana at 09:48 UT when the Moon’s antumbral shadow meets Earth and forms a 323 kilometre wide corridor (Figure 6 [OH2006]). Guyana’s capitol city Georgetown lies just a few kilometres outside the path’s northern limit. Here, a magnitude 0.920 partial eclipse will be seen at sunrise. On the central line 160 kilometres south, the duration of annularity is 5 minutes 31 seconds (](http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/ASE2006/ASE2006fig/ASE2006-JA1.GIF)).
Rushing east, the antumbra quickly enters Surinam where its capital city Paramaribo lies deep within the antumbral path. Maximum eclipse in Paramaribo occurs at 09:51 UT, the Sun’s altitude is 5° and the duration of annularity is 5 minutes 1 seconds. Continuing into French Guiana, the capitol city Cayenne stands just 10 kilometres south of the central line. Maximum eclipse occurs at 09:53 UT as the Sun stands 8° above the eastern horizon during an annular phase lasting 5 minutes 42 seconds.
The southern edge of the antumbra briefly clips the north coast of Brazil before spending the next three and a half hours sweeping across the South Atlantic. Greatest eclipse occurs at 11:40:11 UT. The annular duration is 7 minutes 9 seconds, the path width is 261 kilometres and the Sun is 66° above the featureless horizon of the open ocean. The central track runs south of the African continent and nearly reaches Kerguelen Island before ending at local sunset (13:31 UT). During its 3 hour 40 minute flight across our planet, the Moon’s antumbra travels about 13,800 kilometres and covers 0.83% of Earth’s surface area. Path coordinates and central line circumstances are presented in Table 3 [OH2006].
![Figure 5 [OH2006]](http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/image1/SE2006Sep22-Fig5.GIF){kind=link}
![Figure 6 [OH2006]](http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/image1/SE2006Sep22-Fig6.GIF){kind=link}
Partial phases of the eclipse are visible primarily from South America and Africa. Local circumstances for a number of cities are listed in Table 4 [OH2006]. All times are given in Universal Time. The Sun’s altitude and azimuth, the eclipse magnitude and obscuration are all given at the instant of maximum eclipse. This is the 16th eclipse of Saros 144. The series began with the first of eight partial eclipses on 1736 Apr 11. The first central eclipse was annular in the Southern Hemisphere on 1880 Jul 07. The series will produce 39 annular eclipses the last of which is 2565 Aug 27. The series terminates on 2980 May 05 after 23 more partial eclipses. Complete details for Saros 144 may be found at:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEsaros/SEsaros144.html
Additional and supplemental material for the 2006 eclipse will be published here in the coming months.
***I wonder if the Fiq Council took that into their calculations???
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ur in houston right? the islamic circle of the greater houston area sighted the moon thus making the first day of ramadan today.
http://www.isgh.org/ramadhan.pdf
Allah’s knows best and He knows who has the best of intentions. 
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We are not supposed to fast on the day of doubt.
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No they are counting friday as 28 shabban and saturday as 29 shabban.
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We are fasting today too, I think most mosques are. Ramadan Mubarak everyone!
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i agree. i hate goin thru this every yr. Ya’Allah maddad
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Is there a confusion in your mind about the title of this thread? This thread is about USA. There is another thread right below it, that is about Middle East.
Jazak Allah Khairun!
Sorry! I didn't read title. I came in this thread from the forum home page. :(
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Chalo ji! Well I will follow this next year then.
Why oh why Dear God?
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^^ just consider it as a shabaan nafli roza :)
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You’re not supposed to fast during the 2nd half of Shabaan unless you have a valid reason: such as making up obligatory fasts, or if you’re in a habit to fast on a regular basis, or if you’ve been fasting from the 1st half of Shabaan.
Ref: Prohibition and permission for fasting during the 2nd half of Sha’baan
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I m fastin today since my local mosque announced that sat is the first day of ramadan
In pakistan its gonna b monday..hate that..they should b only one day before us not 2!
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AE? I'm not trying to make anyone feel bad? Why are you getting all defensive on me? :S
Refer to #46 for more. You have to be firm on your deen, if i see something thats wrong, OFCOURSE i'll speak out against it. You want me to stay quiet? and not even acknowledge that its wrong?
I can't do anythign about it, hte least I can do is inform people, and condemn it as wrong.
I haven't openly said "YOU ARE WRONG" anywhere, infact, in all of my threads I wished a them a blessed ramzan.
I'm sorry if its hurting you so much. I don't know what it is I did. I wasn't expecting it from you atleast :(
Also, i've given you hadith after hadith, not sights confirming the sighting of the moon using pre-calculations.
I've kept trying to remind people to move from pre-calculations to actual hadiths. Not confirming that its on saturday for sure..
because it is impossible ina ll sense.
Only those that wish to follow saudi, in the name of "unity", can celebrate it.
Ramazan Mubarak.
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Uptil 9PM EDT, no evidence of moonsighting from all of Canada and US. I think we will need to wait till 10:15PM when the sun sets in California and Vancouver to get the last reports.
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hey it 2morrow
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no, I have checked al-khoei, icna, and southbay islamic association and none of them have any reports of moonsighting
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ooooooooook! Great! So what now?
Dearest Allah ji please forgive me for fasting 
According to moonsighting.com 2 people in Denton, TX and another 2 in Houston, TX witnessed the new moon. I didn;t think it was necessary for every state to individually sight the moon.
Grrrrrrrrrrr.
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every state doesnt even site the moon…i dont think va even has a moonsighting committee.
anyway…Allah knows whats in our hearts…and He is All Merciful 