Closed By Thick Clouds, Invisible Hilal In Surabaya

One member of the monitoring team from UINSA carried out rukyatullhilal on the local campus, Tuesday (9/4/2024). (Between/Ananto Pradana)

JAKARTA - A team from the State University of Sunan Ampel (UINSA) Surabaya did not succeed in seeing the appearance of the determinant hilal 1 Syawal 1445 Hijri, because the sky conditions in the local area were covered by thick clouds, Tuesday.

"Lintang min tujuh derajat, cuaca sedang tidak mendukung. Untuk kategoriwannya ini lemah sehingga tidak memungkinkan," kata Lecturer Ilmu Falaq UINSA Surabaya Elly Uzlifatul Jannah, dikutip Antara.

He also said that referring to data from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the thick cloud conditions this afternoon were caused by cloudy weather and rain in the city of Surabaya in the morning.

He explained that rukyatullhilal used theetherical hisab method or processed the data of the Sun and the Moon during conjunction.

"As a result, we got a height of 5.5 degrees hilal, an elongation of 8.8 degrees," he said.

The monitoring report for the hilal by the UINSA team, said Elly, was then immediately submitted to the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) and then became one of the ingredients for the isbat trial.

"The testimony of rukyatullhilal then became a trial during the trial," he said.

He hopes that the hilal for determining 1 Syawal 1445 Hijri can be seen in other areas, so that Muslims in the country can celebrate Eid together on Wednesday (10/4).

"From outside Java, hopefully it can be seen in Kupang, NTT. This morning there was a Bosscha report that it was quite sunny," he said.

The rukyatullhilal process also involved dozens of students of UINSA's Falaq Science who had sat in line, since 16.00 WIB.