moonphases1

Usage

Overview

moonphases is a small program that displays the various moon phases (new, first, full, third, specifically) for the given period, delimited by start and end.

Dates are parsed by pyEphem as ISO-8601-like timestamps (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS), in the UTC timezone. Dates are shown in the local timezone, use the TZ environment variable to change.

Options

start

start date, default now.

end

end date, default next 30 days.

Examples

moonphases

Displays the next 30 days.

  $ moonphases
  2018-12-07 02:20:21 new
  2018-12-15 06:49:15 first
  2018-12-22 12:48:35 full
  2018-12-29 04:34:18 third

moonphases 2018-12-01

Moon phases for december 2018, same as above.

moonphases 2019 2020

Moon phases for all of 2019.

Environment

TZ

Default timezone.