Hide and seek, then the magic
“It has been playing hide and seek with the clouds,” said Khadijah Hasan Ahmed, Operations Manager at Dubai Astronomy Group.
“Every time the moon comes out from behind the clouds, people immediately line up at the telescopes. Everyone’s trying to see it. We even have kids’ telescopes, shoulder telescopes, and all the kids are lined up as well. Everyone’s enjoying it so much.”
Some of the attendees discovered the celestial spectacle only after arriving at the racecourse. “A lot of people here didn’t even know this was happening, but when they saw the live stream on the massive screens on the racecourse, they just rushed towards the telescopes,” Khadijah explained.