Considerations XVII: 3 By both of these generally accepted criteria, the new lunar crescent would have been visible at Mecca on the evening of 15th July 622, one day earlier than the official date.
Figure 6:
The Hegira Sighting of First Lunar Crescent 6:52:40 PM LT (16:13:24 UT), 15th July 622; Mecca.
There is one further reason that I believe is sufficient by itself to say that the Hegira truly began on Thursday evening, 15th July and not the following evening, the 16th, as officially stated. At the time I estimate the crescent was probably first seen there is a triple conjunction visible in the evening sky of the w and r with the royal star Regulus. To astrologers of this or any other time such a combination in the evening sky is of major significance. As we know, many Moslem countries have the w and r on their flags, and this is obviously so because at this important event—the Hegira is considered to be the birth moment of Islam—the w and r were visible together in the evening sky, and they were not only both present with each other and clearly visible to any onlooker, but their conjunction took place in the presence of Regulus—a triple conjunction of the most awesome type. r was very bright, magnitude –4.0, and Regulus at 10° 43’ g just below the w in the evening sky would also have been clearly visible (the w was not large enough to outshine this important star) with a magnitude of 1.35. In Muhammad’s natal chart r A w is not immediately obvious. One needs to fold the chart in half along the line of the tropics, 0° f to 0° ¦, before they are seen to be joined, the position of r flopping over onto the position of the w—it is a conjunction in antiscion. The conjunction is present in Muhammad’s life but only covertly; it is not immediately evident, not for the public gaze. With the
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