 | Projects: Joint project with the Lancashire Council of Mosques. |
Determining the time of darkness in mid-summer at medium to high latitudes.
The Research and Education Group are assisting scholars and clerics from the Lancashire Council of Mosques to determine the extent of full darkness at the latitude of East Lancashire. This move has been precipitated by the slow regression of the holy month of Ramadan into mid-summer, due to the 354 day lunar-solar year.
It is hoped that the study will provide accurate information upon which the scholars can timetable the Islamic prayers which occur close to the end of Evening Nautical Twilight and the beginning of Morning Nautical Twilight.
Any members who are at a fully dark site on a cloudless evening or morning are asked to record the moment at which the faint horizon glow begins to form a concave pyramidical spike - or when that spike collapses before dawn - and to pass the timings to David C.
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