{"id":272,"date":"2009-08-21T22:47:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T05:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2009-08-21T23:20:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T06:20:30","slug":"ramadan-1430-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/ramadan-1430-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramadan 1430 Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ramadan Mubarak to all!\u00a0 This evening August 21st, 2009\u00a0at 8:06 pm PDT the new crescent moon of Ramadan 1430, was sighted by a group of over 30 men and women, not counting the numerous children as well at Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve, just west of Palo Alto, CA in the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u00a0 We had clear skies with some dark thick marine layer atmospherics close to the horizon.\u00a0 It was a fine crescent that was about 3.5 degrees in altitude above the horizon and at a true azimuth of 265 degrees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Crescent Moon - Ramadan 1430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/images\/ramadan1430-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The group of sighters started out at about 20 people and over the next 15 minutes it grew to well over 35 people.\u00a0 As the evening progressed everyone became quite joyful\u00a0that the Blessed Month of Ramadan was upon us.\u00a0 As the moon approached the horizon, we packed up and headed off into the night with the intention of commencing our Fast for the next 29 or 30 days, until we see the next new moon.\u00a0 So Congratulations to all for having another opportunity to benefit from Ramadan.\u00a0 May all your prayers and fasting be accepted this month.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Crescent Moon - Ramadan 1, 1430 (August 21, 2009)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/images\/ramadan1430-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramadan Mubarak to all!\u00a0 This evening August 21st, 2009\u00a0at 8:06 pm PDT the new crescent moon of Ramadan 1430, was sighted by a group of over 30 men and women, not counting the numerous children as well at Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve, just west of Palo Alto, CA in the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u00a0 We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[41,17,45,164,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}