![]() Finding nothing suitable, finally, I hit upon an idea! This still left me wanting however, so I kept searching. This is a minor nitpick, but if the moon is past 1st quarter, for example, then the moon's phase displayed, IMHO, should reflect that the phase is now waxing gibbous and not still showing 1st Qtr. But, as I said, eventually I would notice the display was no longer updating.Īnother, minor issue with the moon phase module was that at on any given day, the moon's display was only an estimate of the true appearance of the phase. The Opera web browser is nice for this because all menus and toolbars can be turned off. So I would use their module in a page of its own (example above), then make the resulting page display as small as possible in an appropriate spot on my screen. This happened too often for the gadget to be relied on, so I stopped using it.Ībove, left, example of the moon phase display from Right, as displayed in an Opera browser window.įurther, the moon "module" from is intended to be displayed within a web page, which is great, but what I wanted was a moon phase indication not in a web page, but on my PC desktop. For a while, I would use the "Moon Phase Module" from and it would seem to work fine for hours to days, then I would notice that it simply displayed the wrong phase, and was no longer updating. But gadgets have fallen out of vogue, and are mostly no longer supported so I've been on a search for something else. In particular, the scripting described in this article does not work well will versions later than 0.12.)įor a while, there were PC "gadgets" you could run which would display on a monitor, such things as weather, clock, headlines, that sort of thing, and they included a "Moon Phase" gadget. ![]() ![]() (Note: This article has become a bit dated as new versions of Stellarium are released which require slightly different instructions than provided here. ![]()
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