New Criterion for Lunar Crescent Visibility
By MOHAMMAD SH. ODEH, Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences (AUASS), P.O. Box 141568, Amman 11814, Jordan (e-mail: modeh@auass.org) (Received 12 May 2005; accepted 19 September 2005) Abstract. A
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