Moon phase information

[AppleOrchid]

Hi there,

I'd like to feature the moon phase information on my own personal website - in the words of Mumsnet, it may be 'lentil weaving', but it is useful! It's a full moon tonight and people do seem bonkers.
"Lunatic" derives from lunaticus meaning "of the moon" or "moonstruck".

Does anyone know where the moon icon and info comes from and if it's easy to implement?

Thanks!

Hi AppleOrchid, We got the data from NASA. It's all explained on this page. It is possible to do the maths yourself as well if you are so inclined.

You need to be able to put together a script to tell you which is the current phase and then choose the relevant image that shows that phase.

If that's not something you want to attempt, there might be some service somewhere that lets you embed the "current moon" as a simple image tag. If there is though I'm not aware of it.

I'm a bit like an astronaut actually.

Yes, yes you are Tech. Exactly like an astronaut.

::pats Tech's head::

So last night was a full moon.

Ahaaa.

Actually there is such a service by the look of it

www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/custom.html

full moon would explain the mayhem in McGraw Mansions last night

Awwwooooooooooooo!

Thanks very much, Tech. Alas I am not in the least like an astronaut and putting such a script together would be beyond me I think. I'll definitely look at the link you suggest though

Full moon is actually tonight at 18.52

Yes, full moon def tonight.

Is it? Oh dear...

And the award for Most Eloquent Understatement of The Day goes to Babyheave.

Can we get a moon on the mobile site? I like to be prepared.

Once we persuaded those in power to change the normal moon to this one, I ran amok with excitement

Great days.......

I thik they've banned the moon for causing ag...

See I miss all the mn madness as I'm usually out in the garden dressed in funny clothes looking at the moon like a lunatic but it's cloudy tonight.

in actuality I'm orf to check out the tech script links