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With a little help from my friends |
Oct 6 2011, 11:55 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 14-January 07 From: France Member No.: 1602 |
I need some astronomical help and do not know where to find it! So perhaps my buddies at Unmanned Spaceflight can point me in the right direction.
There it is: I'm writing a story losely based upon my stay in Saudi Arabia, 12 light years ago. It starts on Christmas eve 1999 on the Eastern shores of the Red Sea (Jeddah). What I need to know is this: was it the full moon shining that night of the 24th/25th december 1999, the 16th of the month of RamadHaan? And if yes, from what time to what time? It's a bit stupid, but if there was full moonlight around midnight, the story changes quite a bit. I did quite a lot of research trying to find that out, no way. I surfed the net, I asked Christians and Muslims alike, no way! But I'm sure there must be, somewhere, a site where I can set the location, the time, etc and voila. In advance, thank you all very much for your great help! |
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Oct 7 2011, 01:49 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 10-December 06 From: Atlanta Member No.: 1472 |
By definition, full moon would have been on Ramadan 14 (it is a lunar calender anyway). So, on 16th, it was two days after the full moon. For all practical literary purposes, you can assume that there was a full moon on that night (unless your characters had an urgent need to look at mare crisium). I guess the moonrise would have been around 7 pm.
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