The following is the astronomical calculation of the moon for Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, on the day of Syaaban 29,1436H corresponding to June 16, 2015 In conclusion, the moon is a waning crescent, that is not a New Moon, and not observable as it sets earlier before the Sun goes down. However, the starting date of fasting in Brunei will depend on the official announcement on that evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bandar Seri Begawan – The official new moon sighting date to determine the beginning Ramadan…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,7,23],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-new-moon","tag-news","tag-ramadan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. Sun sets at 18:32 (Local Time)
\n2. The moon sets at 18:18.
\nAt sun sets,
\n3. The angular seperation of Moon-Sun is 5.31\u00b0
\n4. Moon Azimuth is 288.75\u00b0
\n5. Sun Azimuth is 293.50\u00b0
\n6. Moon age is 29.3 day old or -3.6 hour before conjunction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"The](\"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150616_RamadanMoonPosition.jpg\")
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