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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know how it is done in a place like the US, but in Saudi Arabia many years ago they were generally Bedouin who were known to be of good character and expert at reading the sky for dead reckoning navigation of the desert. Moon sightings by several reliable witnesses, as accepted by Islamic clerics, were required for the end of Ramadan to be declared. I am not sure how they do it today--for example, whether they would use a physical sighting by an astronomer using a telescope. Some countries use the Saudi declaration, while others rely on local sightings. Some use the calculated beginning of the lunar month. That could be used in this area I suppose to be able to give advance certainty to the dates, but if the school schedules indicate there is an uncertainty, it would be an indication they are relying on physical moon sighting.[/quote]
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