The Suhail Year Begins Day After Tomorrow

Kuwaiti astronomer Adel Al-Saadoun said that the Suhailiyya year among the people of the Arabian Peninsula begins on Monday with the beginning of the Suhail season, one of the 12 seasons of the Suhailiyya year.

Al-Saadoun added to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) today, Saturday, that the star of Suhail shines every year in the direction of the southeast during dawn before sunrise and is first seen in the southern half of the Arabian Peninsula on August 24, while in Kuwait, its viewing begins on the fifth of September.
He explained that the Suhail season extends 53 days until the entry of the marking on October 16 and the first star of the Suhail season (Noa al-Tarfa), which is the last star of the summer season, and (Al-Tarfa) lasts 13 days, after which (Noa al-Jabha) 14 days, then (Al-Zubra) 13 days and the last of it (Al-Pure) 13 Days.

He mentioned that the people of the Arabian Peninsula are looking forward to the famous star (Suhail), as with its rise begins a new era of the seasons of the year, and the people of Kuwait and the island are waiting eagerly for it, as the weather is slightly softened, the night and water cools, the sun’s shade increases in length, the night becomes longer, the day shortens, and the number of daylight hours that are exposed to the heat of the sun decreases.
In parallel, he showed that the sun tends at that time towards the south and increases its approach to the horizon day after the last, which makes its rays less hot and the average maximum temperatures in the first days are 45 degrees Celsius and the lows are 28.

Al-Saadoun said that since most of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula were They inhabit the desert, as well as the people of villages and farms. They devised a system to divide the year into several seasons, and the number of seasons is 12 seasons that start with Suhail rising, then the marking comes, after which the winter and Shabat square..etc.

He pointed out that the star of Suhail is one of the southern stars, and it is the second brightest star in the sky after the star of Sirius Al-Yamaniya (Al-Marzam), as it has a brightness of (0.74 -) and is 310 light years away from Earth and begins to be seen with the eye in Kuwait on the fifth of September.

 

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