Is it possible to have Hilal any where in the world on the day of solar eclipse?
When you think of a day (like solar eclipse day), that day could be 36 hours long day. Surprised?! It is true, but you have to really be patient to understand that. Solar eclipse is usually reported on a date with time in GMT. Now, if eclipse occurs at 0:01 GMT on January 1 for example, it will be 12:01 midday of December 31 in Polynesian Islands, and on January 1, around 7pm their local time in Polynesian Island, the eclipse would have passed 31 hours, but it will still be January 1 (Eclipse day – has now gone past 31 hours) and such a moon would be visible in Polynesian Islands easily in many cases, but not always, because, if the moon is in extreme Norther Hemisphere, it will not be visible in Polynesian Islands even after 31 hours of sun eclipse. So you see, you cannot put any clear statement and situation could be different in different months and seasons. The answer in short is, that looking at the visibility curve, you can have an idea of whether it will be visible at all, and w
