Primary and intermediate phases

[jasonsturges]

This has come up repeatedly, and need to isolate some notion of primary an intermediary phases.

Primary phases occur at a specific moment in time, and include:

• New Moon
• First Quarter
• Full Moon
• Last Quarter

Intermediate phases are ~7.4 days and do not occur at a specific moment in time. They include:

• Waxing Crescent
• Waxing Gibbous
• Waning Gibbous
• Waning Crescent

API not yet determined to implement this.

[pierroo]

Hi @jasonsturges just passing by to check if this was implemented since and I missed out?
Thanks for the awesome library btw :)

[jasonsturges]

Remind me - were you wanting to see the current phase, or just the ability to pull these as separate values?

Full moon is a specific moment in time, but I think many people want the phase reported as full from that moment to the next phase. Still not entirely sure how to implement that in a clear way....

I'll try to dedicate some more time to this library.

[rudolfolah]

I ended up using another library to get the phase names, there's a function that shows the phases around a given date: https://github.com/ryanseys/lune?tab=readme-ov-file#to-search-for-recent-phases-around-the-current-date

From what I've tried out, the phases are between 5 and 8 days. I used Luxon to create 1-day intervals to cover the points in time (new moon, full moon, first quarter, last quarter) and then created intervals in between them.

[jasonsturges]

@rudolfolah Interesting, I haven't seen this library before.

Yeah, there are tons of packages - https://github.com/cosinekitty/astronomy is one that predicts upcoming phases. Thousands of SLOC available for advanced scientific usage.

Glad you found something that works for you.