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Phase of the moon according to local scripts and Astro::MoonPhase
The date is Tuesday the 19th. March 2024 and the time is 5:15:27.
There were 1,710,839,727 seconds since 01-Jan-1970.
The local scripts are a translation of the basic code from a book called
Celestial Basic by Eric Burgess 1985. The Perl package Astro::MoonPhase
which calculates the positions of the sun and
the moon as seen from the earth are taken from the book Practical Astronomy
by Peter Duffett-Smith 1981.
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Phase from Astro::MoonPhase :-
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MoonPhase | 0.32 |
MoonIllum | 0.714 |
MoonAge | 9.462 |
MoonDist | 396,140.287 |
MoonAng | 0.503 |
SunDist | 148,982,879.641 |
SunAng | 0.535 |
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This photograph of the moon is taken from Wikipedia.
The crater in the lower left is Tycho named after the Danish astronomer
Tycho Brahe (14 December 1546 - 24 October 1601).
It is a young crater, only about 108 million years old,
and so the dinosaurs must have seen the impact.
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