New moon report Sivan 2012

שלום לכולם.
לא קיבלתי דיווחים על ראיית הירח ביום שני ביום שלישי הירח נראה בישראל. הצופים דיווחו על תנאי אובך ועננות שהיקשו מאד על ראיית הירח. אני ראיתי את הירח קודם במשקפת ומיד אחר כך בעין בצורה מאד לא ברורה (בלי לראות אותו במשקפת לא הייתי רואה בעין). כשהירח שקע יותר לתוך האובך ראיתי רק במשקפת ובמצלמה.

החודש נהיה עדים למאורע נדיר במיוחד מעבר נוגה על פני השמש. כדאי מאד להתארגן כבר מעכשיו ולתכנן איך הולכים לצפות באירוע. שאלות בנושא בבקשה להפנות אלי ישירות gadieid@gmail.com
גלריית תמונות מהירח החדש ושאר החודש למטה.
עוד דיווחים מופיעים באנגלית.
שבת שלום וחג שבועות שמח
גדי


הנה התצפיות:

Observer	Country	City	Date	TZ (UT)	Optical Aid	First Seen
Roy Hoffman	Israel	Maale Adummim	22/05/2012	2	Binoculars	19:46
Eli Katz		Ofra	22/05/2012	2		19:47
Tali Paz		Hashmonaim	22/05/2012	2		19:50
Gadi eidelheit		Givat Shmuel	22/05/2012	2		19:57
Roy Hoffman	Israel	Maale Adummim	22/05/2012	2		20:02
Yitschak Hartman		Hashmonaim	22/05/2012	2		20:02
Augustus Paul	Dominicia	Roseau	22/05/2012	-4		18:34
Ariq Arar	Sweeden	Goteborg	22/05/2012	1		Not Seen
Roger, Jamie and Jesse Benton, Eva Reeves and Jim Law.	Alabama	Montgomery	22/05/2012	-8		20:30

Hi All.
I did not receive any observations reports from Monday. The moon was seen in Tuesday. In Israel the weather was not good as Roy Hoffman tells:

  I saw the Moon last night from Ma'ale Adummim. The sky was very hazy and the naked eye observation very difficult. The Moon was already visible with binoculars when I started at 19:46 and became visible to the naked eye at 20:02 till it faded at 20:06. It was still clearly visible with binoculars at 20:09 when I left. The weather conditions were 23½°C, RH34%, P 963 mbar.

  I enclose the written report and two photographs that show what a difference 13 minutes make. DSCF2315a.jpg was taken at 19:52 when the Moon could not be seen with the naked eye. Because I could not see it, I did not get it all in the frame. This picture required a lot of contrast enhancement and the partial crescent is very difficult to see. I might have been able to do better had I adjusted the exposure more carefully. However it does answer the question as to whether an 'invisible' Moon can be photographed with the kind of camera that we were discussing with Augustus yesterday. DSCF2324a.jpg shows the Moon at 20:05 and is not contrast enhanced. You can compare the two photographs with Photoshop by pasted the earlier one on top and adjusting the transparency. The crescents fit exactly.

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This month, do not miss the rare Venus Transit. Read everything you need to know and prepare in advance and of course send photos if you can!
http://www.thevenustransit.com/p/venus-transit-read-first-and-faq.html
If you have questions about it, please contact me directly at gadieid@gmail.com

Shabbat Shalom
Happy Shavuot
Gadi

I am attaching Roy's photo and some of my own
2315a - Roy Hoffman

2324 By Roy




Venus Crescent - Gadi Eidelheit (It is thinner and thinner everyday)

Saturn - Gadi Eidelheit

Orange super-moon rising - Gadi Eidelheit

Report of the new moon of Iyar 22-4-2012

שלום רב. הירח החדש של חודש אייר נראה בישראל ובמקומות אחרים אור לא' אייר
מצורפת טבלת תצפיות ומבחר תמונות

Thew new moon was seen from Israel and other place.

The table with some picture follows:

Observer	Country	City	Date		TZ (UT)		Optic Aid		First Seen
Roy Hoffman	Israel	Maale Adummim	22/04/2012		2		Bino		19:20
Tali Paz	Israel	Hashmonaim	22/04/2012		2		None		19:28
Gadi Eidelheit	Israel	Givat Shmuel	22/04/2012		2		None		19:30
Eli Katz	Israel	Ofra	22/04/2012		2		None		19:32
Yitschak Hartman	Israel	Hashmonaim	22/04/2012		2		None		19:32
Roy Hoffman	Israel	Maale Adummim	22/04/2012		2		None		19:35
Ehud Bar Sinai	Israel	Tel Aviv	22/04/2012		2		None		19:40
Barbara Brot	Israel	Petach Tikva	22/04/2012		2		None		19:40
Yechial Greenblum	Israel	Neve Daniel	22/04/2012		2		None		19:40
Augustus Paul	Dominicia	Roseau	22/04/2012		-4		None		18:31
Larry Acheson	USA Teaxa	Plano	22/04/2012		-7		None		20:04
Bill & Marsha Hastings	USA Oregon	Creswell	22/04/2012		-7		None		20:35
Ariq Arar	Sweeden	Gotebotg	22/04/2012		1		Not Seen

PIctures from  Aug

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.365911803445077.79504.100000787822166&type=1&l=caaf0b2349

And some other photos

From Ira Hartman

From Roy Hoffman

And from Bill Hastings

The new moon of Nisan 5772 הירח החדש של חודש ניסן תשע"ב‎

שלום לכולם
הירח החדש של חודש ניסן נראה  ממקומות שונים בעולם
ראויה לציון במיוחד התצפית של ג'ים סתם שצפה בירח כבר ביום חמישי באמצעות טלסקופ כ-11 שעות אחר המולד


Hello,
Please bare with my English as I am not a native English speaker.
The new moon of Nissan was seen from various places In Israel and the rest of the world
The observation of Jim Stamm  was done when the moon was about 11 hours old!

Name  TZ  Country  City  Neighborhood Date Firstseen Seen Jim Stamm -7 USA AZ Tucson Oracle Road 22/03/2012 18:48 Opt Jocelyn Corabello 2 Israel Jerusalem Old City 23/03/2012 18:14 Yes Gadi Eidelheit 2 Israel Givat Shmuel Center 23/03/2012 18:14 Yes Nehemia Gordon 2 Israel Jerusalem Old City 23/03/2012 18:14 Yes Kieth Johnson 2 Israel Jerusalem Old City 23/03/2012 18:14 Yes Magdi Shamuel 2 Israel Ashdod Givat Yona 23/03/2012 18:16 Yes Tali Paz 2 Israel Hashmonaim Center 23/03/2012 18:19 Yes Willie Ondricek 2 Israel Poria Center 23/03/2012 18:20 Yes Yitschak Hartman 2 Israel Hashmonaim Center 23/03/2012 18:22 Opt Avi Marcus 2 Israel Givat Hamoreh Center 23/03/2012 18:22 Yes Dina Marcus 2 Israel Givat Hamoreh Center 23/03/2012 18:22 Yes Brian and Linda Convery 2 Israel Shores Center 23/03/2012 18:24 Yes Augustus Paul -4 Dominica Roseau Center 23/03/2012 18:44 Yes Felix and Clemencia Thomas -4 Dominica Roseau Center 23/03/2012 18:55 Yes Ariq Arar 2 Sweden Gothenburg Center 23/03/2012 18:58 Opt Marsha Hastings -7 USA OR Creswell Center 23/03/2012   No

Seen

The seeing of the new moon was harder than usual. Here are some of the reports:

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Brian and Linda Convery: It was difficult to see in the haze over the Mediterranean. We observed it for over 7 minutes until the haze once again darkened. It was a traditional smiley face as Linda would say. There were others from our party in Har Gilo but they could not see it from there.
=================================================צפייה של מגדי שמואל ואלי שמואל

הכננה לתצפית: 54 דקות לפני שקיעת השמש צפינו מהו גובה השמש.

גובה זה הוא כגובה הירח בזמן שקיעת השמש.

גובה של "שיבר" - כף יד פתוחה.

 בשעה 17:55 נראה הקצה העליון של השמש שוקע
האופק המערבי הוא ים והיו אוניות שעזרו לסמן את מקום שקיעת השמש.

הגובה המשוער לראייה הוא - אנטנה של בניין סמוך לאופק.


כעשרים ואחד דקות אחרי שקיעת השמש, בגובה ובמקום המשוער

 זוהה הירח במשקפת 11X80

 בעקבות כך נראה בקושי רב הירח בעיניים פשוטות
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 The Crescent New Moon was sighted by me last evening at the beginning of Shabbat on the 23rd of March 2012 C.E. from Göteborg, but only through binoculars. When I arrived to my favourite point of observation at 18:34 local time (UT+1h), I could observe sunset in the western sky. The sky was mostly clear, but some clouds were close to the horizon in the west, alas. At 18:44, I suddenly found Tsedeq with my (8x30) binoculars, and when I looked higher up in the sky, I could see Nogah with unaided eyes at 18:45; possibly Nogah would had been visible some minutes earlier if I had looked in that direction. At 18:58 I found the very thin Chodesh with my binoculars, but it disappeared almost directly, into a thicker cloud. However, at 19:01 I found this thin Crescent again, and from that time it was visible most of the time, but only through binoculars, not with the unaided eye despite trying at many times. With the Chodesh sunking down, it came into the thickening haze above the horizon; therefore, I think, it was not visible without optical aid even when the sky was getting darker. At 19:05 I could see Tsedeq with unaided eyes, but it was not possible to see the Chodesh without binoculars; I tried and tried unto it set in low clouds, at 19:23. The orientation of this Chodesh was about "3 1/2" to "7 1/2". The temperature in the air was +9.0 degrees centigrade.

Yours sincerely,

Ariq Arar (Alef-Resh-Jod-Qof Ajin-Resh-Ajin-Resh)

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Tom Rosenfeld:
I looked for the moon with my son Josh last night from Efrat, but it was not visible. We where looking between 6:15 and 6:30.

Tonight the moon was easy to see, even through the has. I started to look at about 6:15 and saw it right away.
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Augustus Paul

     My search for this 23/03/2012 evening new moon of Abib began from 18:17 sunset and was successful at spotting it from 18:44 (27 minutes after sunset) and was later joined by Elder Thomas and his wife who through my assistance in them being able to spot it saw it for themselves at 18:55.

     Also seeing it together with the three of us was a gentle man standing not to far from us and overhearing our deleberation said it look just like a little baby.

     It was located north of where the sun set, tilting a bit to the north and not all that high above the horizon. Actually, it was lower than I'd expected, at the time (18:44) I began seeing it.
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If you have photos or videos of the new moon, feel free to send them, 
Happy passover

פסח כשר ושמח
גדי איידלהייט
Gadi Eidelheit

New Moon Report for 2011-10-28

The Moon was seen Thursday evening, 2011-10-28 in Israel and in North America. 

הירח נראה בארץ ישראל 2011-10-28 וגם אוסטרליה ואמריקה

Place	Observer	Date	Time
Ma’ale Adumim	Roy Hoffman	Oct 28	16:37 Naked Eye
Ma’ale Adumim	Chaim Green	Oct 28	16:37 Naked Eye
Ma’ale Adumim	Amichai Green	Oct 28	16:37 Naked Eye
Ma’ale Adumim	Aharon Rosenbaum	Oct 28	16:37 Naked Eye
Ma’ale Adumim	Gideon Harlap	Oct 28	16:37 Naked Eye
Ma’ale Adumim	Gedaliah Mayer	Oct 28	16:37 Naked Eye
Ma’ale Adumim	Mordi Mayer	Oct 28	16:37 Naked Eye
Ma’ale Adumim	Shui Mayer	Oct 28	16:37 Naked Eye
Ma’ale Adumim	Avi Witkin	Oct 28	16:37 Naked Eye
Ma’ale Adumim	Yoel Keren	Oct 28	16:37 Naked Eye
Ma’ale Adumim	Joel Guberman	Oct 28	16:37 Naked Eye
Ma’ale Adumim	Ronen Raybi	Oct 28	16:37 Naked Eye
Ma’ale Adumim	Gidon Ariel	Oct 28	17:00 Naked Eye
Ma’ale Adumim	Lionel Isaacs	Oct 28	16:58 Naked Eye
Haifa Center	Devorah Boer	Oct 28	17:02 Naked Eye
Haifa Center	Jacob Boer	Oct 28	17:02 Naked Eye
Kfar Eldad	Bruce Brill	Oct 28	17:10 Naked Eye
Kfar Eldad	Yoel HaLevy	Oct 28	17:12 Naked Eye
Old City	Daniella Cachicas	Oct 28	16:58 Naked Eye
Old City	David Cachicas	Oct 28	16:58 Naked Eye
Upper Nazereth	Jonathan Hoffman	Oct 28	17:05 Naked Eye
Tekoa	Baruch Ben Yosef	Oct 28	17:30 Naked Eye
Tekoa	Yonatan Chernobel	Oct 28	17:30 Naked Eye
Tekoa	Rafael Ruderman	Oct 28	17:30 Naked Eye
Otniel	Yehudah Glick	Oct 28	17:48 Naked Eye
Givat Shmuel	Gadi Eidelheit	Oct 28	17:08 Naked Eye
Bnei Brak	יחזקאל רייכמאן	Oct 28	16:57 Naked Eye
חשמםנאים	יצחק הרטמן	Oct 28	16:52 Naked Eye
Efrat	דניאל ג'קסון	Oct 28	17:05 Naked Eye
Efrat	Dalia Orlev	Oct 28	17:05 Naked Eye
Efrat	Tom Rosenfeld	Oct 28	17:45 Naked Eye
Efrat	Josh Rosenfeld	Oct 28	17:45 Naked Eye
Jerusalem	Devorah Gordon	Oct 28	17:02 Naked Eye
Jerusalem	Nehemia Gordon	Oct 28	17:02 Naked Eye
Kendal, NY, USA	Brian Convery	Oct 28	18:10 Naked Eye
Kendal, NY, USA	Linda Convery	Oct 28	18:10 Naked Eye

Next month, the New Moon will first appear from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Shabbat, November 26^th between 16:33 and 17:44 provided that it is not cloudy.  It will be easy to see.  The Moon's horizon coordinates will be Azimuth 232½° Altitude 13° and should cover 1:54 to 7:02 of the clock’s face.

הירח המתחדש מופיע לראשונה ביום שבת קודש,26.11.2011 בין 16:33 ו-17:44 אם אין עננים.  הוא יהי הקל מאוד לראייה.  קואורדינאטות אופקיות של אזימות ½°232  רום 13°  והירח היה מכסא  1:54 ל7:02  על פני השעון.