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المملكة: “Astronomical Jeddah” monitors the full moon for the month of Shaban tonight

Today, Wednesday, the sky of the Arab world is monitored, the full moon of the month of Shaban, and it will be seen throughout the night with the sky of the Arab world.

Complete full moon

The head of the Astronomical Society in Jeddah, Eng. Majid Abu Zahrah, explained that the moon will be completed in a dirham at the moment when it is at an angle of 180 degrees from the sun, and this will happen at 04:53 pm Mecca time, and the most complete half of its orbit is around the earth this month.

And that the moon will rise from the eastern horizon with the sunset, and it will notice that its apparent size is huge when it is near the horizon and it is just an optical illusion, and it can be red or orange due to the atmosphere of our planet and this will follow its arrival to the highest point in the sky after midnight It will be set on the western horizon with sunrise Thursday.

Moon movement around the sun

Abu Zahra indicated that the moon is now moving on the opposite side of the sun in the sky, so we see all its daytime side and therefore it seems to us just like a bright silver ball, returning this time of the month ideal for monitoring and photographing radioactive nozzles on the moon through the endoscope or telescope Contrary to the rest of the terrain that appears flat due to the presence of the entire moon in the sunlight. It is reported that during the coming nights, the moon will rise late for an hour every day and after a few days it will be scenes in the sky of dawn and early morning, and at that time he reaches the last phase of the sale a week after its arrival, the full moon.

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