Module: phoon

phoon is essentially xphoon, rewritten in Perl with a few math tweaks/fixes and different base case data. It gives a graphical display of the phase of the moon.

Current platforms

All

Instances

multiple allowed

additional resources

ipad

ipad specifies an internal padding to add to the inside of all four module borders. The padding is added inside any relief.

Resource defaults

Resource defaults explicitly altered from the global defaults by this module:

borderwidth: 1
ipad: 20
order: .2
relief: sunken
scalejustify: 0
scalelenadj: 60
scalerefresh: 2000
scalewidadj: 150

Possible enhancements

Oh boy, here we go...

This is the kind of module one can take to a logical extreme... and I really hope someone does! In addition to wishing the prediction algorithm was more precise (the code I use is +/- 20 minutes for the next several centuries, which is better than xphoon managed. Emacs's calender, however, is +/- a minute or so... and it *bugs* me), I'd like phoon to predict blue/harvest moons and eclipses. The biggest single want, though, is to get the axial tilt and lighting right. At the moment it just does the easy stuff like xphoon. I realize that would require lon/lat, something difficult to autosense, but that's what X resources are for :-)

It would be especially cool for a real astronomy nut to do it... I *know* I'm going to get something wrong if I haven't already.

Also, while I'm at it... anyone want to write earth? :-)

MGM will not get your whites whiter or your colors brighter. It will, however, sit there and look spiffy while sucking down a major honking wad of RAM.