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Moonstruck

Introduction

Have the current moon phase displayed in your system tray. This program sits in your system tray. Calculation of the current moon phase (and everything else) is based on the computers system time. The program does not connect to a web site to get this information.

What you see

The system tray icon changes with the moon phase.

Hovering the mouse over it will display the age of the moon.

But that's not all. Double-click on the icon, and you get this list:

The information on the top refers to the age of the moon, and the phase it is currently in. '22%' means a quarter the moon's surface is lit, 50% is half moon, 100% would be full moon. The age of moon also tells us that the waning half moon (last quarter moon) has just been. The next batch of lines gives all the details for the current lunar month: Last new moon, first quarter, half moon, last quarter, new new moon. Then there are the times for moon rise, transit and moon set for today. And the same for the sun, just because we can.

Parameters

But doesn't the moon rise at different times in different places? Of course it does. For this reason Moonstruck accepts parameters to set your location. It expects the following format:

   MStruck Addis Ababa 9 -38.6

• Addis Ababa is the place name. This can be one, two or more separate words.
• 9 is the latidude of Addis Ababa. For the northern hemisphere the latitude is positive, negative for the southern hemisphere. Values range from -90 to 90.
• -38.6 is the longitude of Addis Ababa. The longitude is positive for West and negative for East. Values range from -180 to 180.

What you need to do is to go to your local library and find out what your latitude and longitude are. Alternatively, use Atlas Query.

The parameters can be given when the program is called, or through it's configuration dialog.

If you happen to live in Whitley Bay on the NE coast of England, you're lucky. Because that is the default setting for the program, and you don't need enter the details at program start. Open the 'About box' and see for yourself:

The About box will also tell you what time zone the program thinks you are in. You see, times are calculated in Universal Time iternally, and then translated into your local time for display purposes.

Language support

Currently the Moonstruck supports the following languages:

• English
• Nederlands
• Deutsch
• Plattdüütsch

If you think you can help us out and provide the translation into another language, or even suggest better wordings, please contact the author.

History

Who cares? For those of you who do:

• Some time in 2000: 1st working version for my personal use
• 2003: release on the net
• 2004: a number of bugs fixed
• 2005: version 2005.003 has been given out to a number of people, but not been put on the website. This version now has multi-language support, a configuration dialog. The actual data is displayed in a proper window, not a menu as it was in the earlier version. Also comes with a setup.
• early 2007: version 2006.001

Summary

Works great for me, small footage.

Download

Moonstruck is freeware. By downloading the installation file you accept the license agreement.

Please download here
Install.Moonstruck.2006.001.exe (162kB)